Corinthians (The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the )

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I have become [as] sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

And if I have prophecies, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

And if I give out all my goods, and if I deliver my body that I be burned, but I do not have love, I am not profited anything.

Love has patience, is kind; love is not envious; love is not vain, is not puffed up;

does not behave indecently, does not pursue its own things, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil;

does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices in the truth.

[Love] quietly covers all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails. But if [there are] prophecies, they will be caused to cease; if tongues, they shall cease; if knowledge, it will be caused to cease.

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

but when the perfect thing comes, then that [which is] in part will be caused to cease.

When I was an infant, I spoke as an infant, I thought as an infant, I reasoned as an infant. But when I became a man, I caused to cease the things of the infant.

And now faith, hope, and love, these three things remain; but the greatest of these [is] love.