1 Corinthians 13

Love: The Superior Way

13If I speak human or angelic languages

but do not have love, ^r

I am a sounding gong ^sor a clanging cymbal.

²If I have the gift of prophecy ^t

and understand all mysteries

and all knowledge,

and if I have all faith

so that I can move mountains ^u

but do not have love, I am nothing.

³And if I donate all my goods to feed the poor,

and if I give my body in order to boast ^v

but do not have love, I gain nothing.

⁴Love is patient, ^wlove is kind.

Love does not envy, ^x

is not boastful, is not conceited, ^y

⁵does not act improperly,

is not selfish, ^zis not provoked, ^a

and does not keep a record of wrongs.

⁶Love finds no joy in unrighteousness

but rejoices in the truth. ^b

⁷It bears all things, believes all things,

hopes all things, endures ^call things.

⁸Love never ends. ^d

But as for prophecies,

they will come to an end;

as for languages, they will cease;

as for knowledge, it will come to an end.

⁹For we know in part,

and we prophesy in part.

¹⁰But when the perfect comes,

the partial will come to an end.

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 put aside childish things.

¹²For now we see indistinctly, ^eas in a mirror, ^f

but then face to face. ^g

Now I know in part,

but then I will know fully, ^h

as I am fully known. ⁱ

¹³Now these three remain:

faith, hope, ^jand love.

But the greatest of these is love.