13 1 If I speak in the tongues of people and of angels, but have not love, I am only a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, enough to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away everything I own, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is not rude, it does not insist on its own way, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. 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 man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a dim reflection, as in a mirror; 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 love.