13If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. ²And if I have ^aprophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, ^bso as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³^cIf I give away all I have, and ^dif I deliver up my body to be burned,¹ but have not love, I gain nothing.

⁴^eLove is patient and ^fkind; love ^gdoes not envy or boast; it ^his not arrogant ⁵or rude. It ⁱdoes not insist on its own way; it ^jis not irritable or resentful;² ⁶it ^kdoes not rejoice at wrongdoing, but ^lrejoices with the truth. ⁷^mLove bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, ^eendures all things.

⁸Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹For ⁿwe know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰but ^owhen the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. ¹¹When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. ¹²For ^pnow we see in a mirror dimly, but ^qthen face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as ^rI have been fully known.

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

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Footnotes

1Some manuscripts deliver up my body [to death] that I may boast
2Greek irritable and does not count up wrongdoing

Cross references

a[ch. 14:1, 39; Matt. 7:22]; See Acts 2:18
b Matt. 17:20; Mark 11:23; [Luke 17:6]
c[Matt. 6:2]
d Dan. 3:28
e[Prov. 10:12; 17:9; 1 Thess. 5:14; 2 Tim. 2:10; 1 Pet. 4:8]
f[2 Cor. 6:6; Gal. 5:22; Eph. 4:32; Col. 3:12]
g Acts 7:9
hSee ch. 4:6
iSee ch. 10:24
j[Rom. 4:6; 2 Cor. 5:19]
k[Rom. 1:32; 2 Thess. 2:12]
l[2 John 4; 3 John 3, 4]
mch. 9:12
e[See ver. 4 above]
n[ch. 8:2]
o[John 15:15]
p James 1:23; [Num. 12:8; Job 36:26; 2 Cor. 3:18; 5:7]
q 1 John 3:2; See Matt. 5:8
rSee ch. 8:3