1 Corinthians

1 Corinthians 13

If I Do Not Have Love

1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of messengers, but do not have love, I have become sounding bronze or a wailing cymbal. 2 And if I have prophecy and know all the secrets and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I dole out all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may be burned, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient; love is kind;

love is not jealous;

it does not brag, it is not puffed up,

5 it does not behave indecently, it does not seek its own,

it is not provoked, it does not count up the evil,

6 it does not rejoice at unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

7 it bears all things, trusts all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

When the Complete Comes

8 Love never falls. But if prophecies, they will be done away with; if tongues, they will stop; if knowledge, it will be done away with. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part; 10 but when the complete comes, what is in part will be done away with.

11 When I was an infant, I spoke as an infant, I thought as an infant, I reasoned as an infant; when I became a man, I have done away with the things of the infant. 12 For now we see through a mirror, in a riddle, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I also was fully known. 13 But now faith, hope, love remain — these three; and the greater of these is love.