1 Corinthians 13

New International Version

13 If I speak in the tongues^[a](A)of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.² If I have the gift of prophecy^(B)and can fathom all mysteries^(C)and all knowledge,^(D)and if I have a faith^(E)that can move mountains,^(F)but do not have love, I am nothing.³ If I give all I possess to the poor^(G)and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,^[b](H)but do not have love, I gain nothing.

⁴ Love is patient,^(I)love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.^(J)5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking,^(K)it is not easily angered,^(L)it keeps no record of wrongs.^(M)6 Love does not delight in evil^(N)but rejoices with the truth.^(O)7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.^(P)

⁸ Love never fails. But where there are prophecies,^(Q)they will cease; where there are tongues,^(R)they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.⁹ For we know in part^(S)and we prophesy in part,¹⁰ but when completeness comes,^(T)what is in part disappears.¹¹ When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood^(U)behind me.¹² For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror;^(V)then we shall see face to face.^(W)Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.^(X)

¹³ And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.^(Y)But the greatest of these is love.^(Z)