1 If I should speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become a sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. VP
2 And if I should have prophecy and should understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. VP
3 And if I should give away all my possessions, and if I should deliver up my body that I may boast, but have not love, I am profited nothing. VP
4 Love is patient, it is kind; love does not envy, love does not boast, it is not puffed up. VP
5 It does not act unbecomingly, it does not seek its own [things], it is not provoked, it keeps no reckoning of evil. VP
6 It does not rejoice at unrighteousness, but it rejoices with the truth. VP
7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. VP
8 Love never fails; but if [there are] prophecies, they will be made null; and if [there are] tongues, they will cease; and if [there is] knowledge, it will be made null. VP
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part; VP
10 but when the perfect should come, the partial will be made null. VP
11 When I was a child, I was speaking like a child, I was thinking like a child, I was reasoning like a child; when I became a man, I have made null the [things] of the child. VP
12 For now we see through a glass in obscurity, but then, face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. VP
13 But now there remain faith, hope, love—these three; but [the] greatest of these [is] love. VP