I Corinthians 13 official translation
- If I speak in the tongues [1] of men and of angels, but have not love,
I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
- If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all
knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not
love, I am nothing.
- If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have
not love, I gain nothing
- Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it
is not proud.
- It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it
keeps no record of wrongs.
- Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
- It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
- Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease;
where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is
knowledge, it will pass away.
- For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
- but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.
- When 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 childish ways behind
me.
- Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face
to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am
fully known.
- And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of
these is love.