1 Corinthians 13:1-12 ▼

1 If I should speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become a sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

2 And if I should have prophecy and should understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

3 And if I should give away all my possessions, and if I should deliver up my body that I may boast, but have not love, I am profited nothing.

4 Love is patient, it is kind; love does not envy, love does not boast, it is not puffed up.

5 It does not act unbecomingly, it does not seek its own things, it is not provoked, it keeps no reckoning of evil.

6 It does not rejoice at unrighteousness, but it rejoices with the truth.

7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never fails; but if there are prophecies, they will be made null; and if there are tongues, they will cease; and if there is knowledge, it will be made null.

9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part;

10 but when the perfect should come, the partial will be made null.

11 When I was a child, I was speaking like a child, I was thinking like a child, I was reasoning like a child; when I became a man, I have made null the things of the child.

12 For now we see through a glass in obscurity, but then, face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.