The Greatest Gift
1 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 havethegiftofprophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith,so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3 Andthough I bestow all my goods to feedthepoor,and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love suffers longandiskind; lovedoes not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;
5 does not behave rudely,does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;
6 does not rejoice in iniquity, butrejoices in the truth;
7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But whetherthereareprophecies, they will fail; whethertherearetongues, they will cease; whetherthereisknowledge, it will vanish away.
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect 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 Fornow we see in a mirror, dimly, but thenface 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 theseislove.