1 Corinthians 13:4-13 ▼

4 Divine love suffers long; divine love is kind; divine love envies not; does not make a display of itself, is not puffed up,

5 does not behave itself uncomely, seeks not its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;

6 it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but it rejoices in the truth;

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

8 Divine love never falls: but whether there are prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there are tongues, they shall cease; whether there is knowledge, it shall vanish away.

9 For we know in part, and prophesy in part:

10 but when the perfect may come, that which is in part shall be done away.

11 When I was an infant, I talked like an infant, I thought like an infant, I reasoned like an infant: when I became a man, I put away the things of the infant.

12 For we now see through a mirror in an enigma; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know perfectly even as I am perfectly known.

13 But now abide faith, hope, divine love, these three; but the greatest of these is divine love.