1. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
2. And 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, I am nothing.
3. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing.
4. Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,
5. Does not behave itself rudely, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, keeps no record of evil;
6. Rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
7. Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8. Love never fails: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.