1 Corinthians 13

The Greatest Gift

13Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. ²And though I have the gift of ^aprophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, ^bso that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³And ^cthough I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body ¹to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

^4dLove suffers long and is ^ekind; love ^fdoes not envy; love does not parade itself, is not ²puffed up; ⁵does not behave rudely, ^gdoes not seek its own, is not provoked, ³thinks no evil; ^6hdoes not rejoice in iniquity, but ⁱrejoices in the truth; ^7jbears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

⁸Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. ^9kFor we know in part and we prophesy in part. ¹⁰But when that which is ⁴perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

¹¹When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. ¹²For ^lnow we see in a mirror, dimly, but then ^mface to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

¹³And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.