Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.

Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.

Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed.

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.