1 Corinthians 13:4-13 ▼

4 Love suffers long, is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not herself, is not puffed up,

5 behaves not unseemly, seeks not her own, is not provoked, takes no account of evil,

6 rejoices not at unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

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

8 Love never fails; but whether there be prophecies, they will be done away; whether there be tongues, they will cease; whether there be knowledge, it will be done away.

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

10 but, when the complete comes, the partial will be done away.

11 When I was a child, I was wont to talk as a child, to think as a child, to reason as a child; since I have become a man, I have done away with the things of the child;

12 for now we see through a mirror, obscurely; but then, face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall fully know, even as I also was fully known.

13 But now abides faith, hope, love; these three; and the greatest of these is love.