1 Corinthians 13:1-13
13:1If I speak in the tongues of humans and of angels but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
13:2And
if I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries and all
knowledge and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains but do not
have love, I am nothing.
13:3If I give away all my possessions and if I hand over my body so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.
13:4Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant\13:5or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable; it keeps no record of wrongs;
13:6it does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices in the truth.
13:7It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
13:8Love
never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for
tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end.
13:9For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part,
13:10but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end.
13:11When
I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned
like a child. When I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways.
13:12For
now we see only a reflection, as in a mirror, but then we will see face
to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I
have been fully known.
13:13And now faith, hope, and love remain, these three, and the greatest of these is love.
