Chapter 13
1st Corinthians
13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and do not have charity, I have become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
13:2 And if I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and do not have charity, I am nothing.
13:3 And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, and do not have charity, it profits me nothing.
13:4 Charity is long-suffering, and is kind; charity does not envy; charity does not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,
13:5 Does not behave itself unseemly, does not seek its own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil;
13:6 Does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
13:7 Beareth all things, believes all things, hopeth all things, endures all things.
13:8 Charity never fails: but whether there are prophecies, they shall fail; whether there are languages, they shall cease; whether there is knowledge, it shall vanish away.
13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
13:10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
13:11 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.
13:12 For now we see through a glass dimly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then I shall know even as I am also known.
13:13 And now abides faith, hope, and charity ~ these three; but the greatest of these is charity.