If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but I have not love, I have become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophecy, and know all the mysteries and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains from one place to another, but I have not love, I am nothing,
And if I doleout all my goods, and if I deliver up my body that I may be burned, but I have not love, I am being profited nothing. Love is long-suffering, is kind; love is not jealous; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up;doth not behave unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, thinketh no evil; ...covereth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Love never falleth away. But whether there be prophesies, they shall be done away; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall be done away, For we know in part, and we prephesy in part; but whenever that which is perfect should come, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was an infant, as an infant I used to reason; but when I became a man, I did away with the things of the infant. For now we see by means of a mirror, darkly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall fully know even as I also was fully known. And there now abideth faith, hope, love, these three things; but the greatest of these is love. |