| 13:1 |
If I were to speak in the language of men, or of Angels, yet not have charity, I would be like a clanging bell or a crashing cymbal. |
| 13:2 |
And if I have prophecy, and learn every mystery, and obtain all knowledge, and possess all faith, so that I could move mountains, yet not have charity, then I am nothing. |
| 13:3 |
And if I distribute all my goods in order to feed the poor, and if I hand over my body to be burned, yet not have charity, it offers me nothing. |
| 13:4 |
Charity is patient, is kind. Charity does not envy, does not act wrongly, is not inflated. |
| 13:5 |
Charity is not ambitious, does not seek for itself, is not provoked to anger, devises no evil. |
| 13:6 |
Charity does not rejoice over iniquity, but rejoices in truth. |
| 13:7 |
Charity suffers all, believes all, hopes all, endures all. |
| 13:8 |
Charity is never torn away, even if prophecies pass away, or languages cease, or knowledge is destroyed. |
| 13:9 |
For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part. |
| 13:10 |
But when the perfect arrives, the imperfect passes away. |
| 13:11 |
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I understood like a child, I thought like a child. But when I became a man, I put aside the things of a child. |
| 13:12 |
Now we see through a glass darkly. But then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know, even as I am known. |
| 13:13 |
But for now, these three continue: faith, hope, and charity. And the greatest of these is charity. |
