1. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become as sounding brass or as 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, but 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, but have not love, it profits me nothing.  (Matt. 6:1-2)
4. Love suffers long and is kind;
   love does not envy;
   love does not parade itself,
   is not puffed up;  (Prov. 10:12;   Eph. 4:32)
5. does not behave rudely,
   does not seek its own,
   is not provoked, thinks no evil;
6. does not rejoice in iniquity,
   but rejoices in the truth;   (Rom. 1:32)  (*!*)  (PASS ON TO A FRIEND)
7. bears all things, believes all things,
   hopes all things, endures all things.  (Gal. 6:2)
8. Love never fails.  But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.
9. For we know in part and we prophesy in part.
   (1 Cor. 8:2;   1 Cor. 13:12)
10. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
11. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face.
    Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.  (2 Cor. 3:18;   Phil. 3:12;   1 John 3:2)
13. And now abide faith, hope, love, these three;
    but the greatest of these is love.

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