1Cor 13
1
Though in every tongue of men and of angels I spoke, and had not love, I should be
as brass which soundeth, or a cymbal which giveth voice.
2
And though there were in me prophecy, and I knew all mysteries, and all knowledge,
and though there were in me all faith, as that I could remove the mountain, and love
were not in me, I should be nothing.
3
And if all I have I make to feed the poor, and I deliver my body to burn, and love
be not in me, I profit nothing.
4
LOVE is patient and benign; love envieth not; love is not tumultuous, nor inflated;
5
it acteth not with unseemliness, nor seeketh its own; it is not angry, nor thoughtful
of evil;
6
it rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth.
7
It endureth every thing, believeth every thing; it hopeth all, endureth all.
8
Love never falleth; for prophecies shall be abolished, and tongues be silent, and
knowledge be abolished:
9
for it is a little of much that we know, and a little of much we prophesy;
10
but when the perfection shall have come, then shall be abolished that which is little.
11
When I was a child, as a child I spake, and as a child I thought, and as a child I
reasoned; but when I had become a man I abolished these things of childhood.
12
But now as in a mirror we see in a figure; but then- the face before the face. Now
I know a little of much; but then shall I know even as I am known.
13
For these are the three that remain, faith and hope and love; but the greatest of
these is love.