1 Corinthians 13 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Love: The Superior Way

¹ If I speak human or angelic tongues  but do not have love,  I am a noisy gong  or a clanging cymbal.

² If I have the gift of prophecy  and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can move mountains,  but do not have love, I am nothing.

³ And if I give away all my possessions, and if I give over my body in order to boast,  but do not have love, I gain nothing.

⁴ Love is patient,  love is kind. Love does not envy,  is not boastful, is not arrogant,

⁵ is not rude, is not self-seeking,  is not irritable,  and does not keep a record of wrongs.

⁶ Love finds no joy in unrighteousness but rejoices in the truth.

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

⁸ Love never ends.  But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end.

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

¹⁰ but when the perfect comes, the partial will come to an end.

¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put aside childish things.

¹² For now we see only a reflection  as in a mirror, but then face to face.  Now I know in part, but then I will know fully,  as I am fully known.

¹³ Now these three remain: faith, hope,  and love #– #but the greatest of these is love.