1 Corinthians 13: 1-13
The Gift of Love13If I
speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love,
I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 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. 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.
4 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or
arrogant 5or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not
irritable or resentful; 6it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but
rejoices in the truth. 7It bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love 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. 9For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part;
10but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end.
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. 12For now we see in a mirror, dimly,* 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. 13And now faith, hope, and
love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
