1Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love {charity}, I am nothing. 3And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love {charity}, it profiteth me nothing.

4Love {charity} suffereth long, and is kind; love {charity} envieth not; love {charity} vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, 6Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

8Love {charity} never faileth; but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. 9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 10But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. 11When I was a child, I spoke {spake} as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12For now we see in a mirror {through a glass}, darkly; but then face to face; now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. 13And now abideth faith, hope, love {charity}, these three; but the greatest of these is love {charity}.