1 Corinthians 13

The Greatest Gift

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of ^aprophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, ^bso that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And ^athough I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body ¹to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
4 ^aLove suffers long and is ^bkind; love ^cdoes not envy; love does not parade itself, is not ¹puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, ^adoes not seek its own, is not provoked, ¹thinks no evil; 6 ^adoes not rejoice in iniquity, but ^brejoices in the truth; 7 ^abears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 ^aFor we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is ¹perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For ^anow we see in a mirror, dimly, but then ^bface to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

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