1 Corinthians 12:24–13:7
24 which our respectable parts do not need.
Instead, God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the less honorable, 25 so that there would be no divisionp in the body, but that the members would have the same concern for each other. 26 So if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
27 Now you are the body of Christ,q and individual members of it. 28 And God has appointed these in the church:r first apostles, second prophets, third teachers,s next miracles,t then gifts of healing,u helping, leading, various kinds of tongues.* 29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all do miracles? 30 Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret?v 31 But desirew the greater gifts. And I will show you an even better way.
13 If I speak human or angelic tongues* but do not have love,x I am a noisy gongy or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecyz and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can move mountainsaa but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give away all my possessions, and if I give over my body in order to boastE but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient,ab love is kind. Love does not envy,ac is not boastful, is not arrogant,ad 5 is not rude, is not self-seeking,ae is not irritable,af and does not keep a record of wrongs. 6 Love finds no joy in unrighteousness but rejoices in the truth.ag 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, enduresah all things.