1 Corinthians 13:1–13

If I speak in the tongues^an of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. ²If I have the gift of prophecy^o and can fathom all mysteries^p and all knowledge,^q and if I have a faith^r that can move mountains,^s but do not have love, I am nothing. ³If I give all I possess to the poor^t and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,^bu but do not have love, I gain nothing.

⁴Love is patient,^v love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.^{w 5}It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking,^x it is not easily angered,^y it keeps no record of wrongs.^{z 6}Love does not delight in evil^a but rejoices with the truth.^{b 7}It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.^c

⁸Love never fails. But where there are prophecies,^d they will cease; where there are tongues,^e they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹For we know in part^f and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰but when completeness comes,^g what is in part disappears. ¹¹When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood^h behind me. ¹²For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror;ⁱ then we shall see face to face.^j Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.^k

¹³And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.^l But the greatest of these is love.^m