⁴Love is patient. Love is kind. Love isn’t jealous. It doesn’t sing its own praises. It isn’t arrogant. ⁵It isn’t rude. It doesn’t think about itself. It isn’t irritable. It doesn’t keep track of wrongs. ⁶It isn’t happy when injustice is done, but it is happy with the truth. ⁷Love never stops being patient, never stops believing, never stops hoping, never gives up.

⁸Love never comes to an end. There is the gift of speaking what God has revealed, but it will no longer be used. There is the gift of speaking in other languages, but it will stop by itself. There is the gift of knowledge, but it will no longer be used. ⁹Our knowledge is incomplete and our ability to speak what God has revealed is incomplete. ¹⁰But when what is complete comes, then what is incomplete will no longer be used. ¹¹When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, and reasoned like a child. When I became an adult, I no longer used childish ways. ¹²Now we see a blurred image in a mirror. Then we will see very clearly. Now my knowledge is incomplete. Then I will have complete knowledge as God has complete knowledge of me.

¹³So these three things remain: faith, hope, and love. But the best one of these is love.

Read in Logos

1 Corinthians 13:11: When 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.