1 Corinthians 13

¹If I speak in the tongues of humans and even of angels, but do not have love, I have become a resonant gong or a clanging cymbal. ²And if I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. ³If I give away everything I own in morsels to feed the poor, and if I hand over my body so that I may be burned, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

⁴Love is patient; love acts with kindness. Love does not burn with envy; love does not brag; it is not inflated with pride. ⁵It does not act disgracefully; it does not seek its own advantage; it is not easily provoked; it does not keep a record of wrongs. ⁶It does not rejoice in injustice, but rejoices together with the truth. ⁷It supports all things, trusts all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

⁸Love never falls. But if there are prophecies, they will be set aside; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be set aside. ⁹For we know only in part and we prophesy only in part; ¹⁰but when the complete comes, the partial will be set aside. ¹¹When I was an infant, I spoke like an infant, I thought like an infant, I reasoned like an infant. When I became an adult, I set aside the things of an infant. ¹²For now we see through a mirror, as in a riddle, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known. ¹³But now, these three remain: faith, hope, and love; and the greatest of these is love.[/SPEAKER]