If I speak in the
of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging
. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all
and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move
, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the
and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain
.
4 Love is
, love is kind. It does not
, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no
. 6 Love does not delight in
but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never
. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a
, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a
; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is
.
