1. If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
2. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.
3. If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.
4. Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
5. doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
6. doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;