1 Corinthians 13
1 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels,
~but do not have love,
I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge,
and if I have a faith that can move mountains,
~but do not have love,
I am nothing.
3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,
~but do not have love,
I gain nothing.
4 Love is
patient,
love is
kind.
It does not envy,
it does not boast,
it is not proud.
5 It does not dishonor others,
it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs.
6 Love does not delight in evil,
but
rejoices with the truth.
7 It always
protects,
always
trusts,
always
hopes,
always
perseveres.
8 Love never fails.
But where there are prophecies,
they will cease;
where there are tongues,
they will be stilled;
where there is knowledge,
it will pass away.
9 For we know in part and
we prophesy in part,
10 but when completeness comes,
what is in part disappears.
11 When I was a child,
I talked like a child,
I thought like a child,
I reasoned like a child.
When I became a man,
I put the ways of childhood behind me.
12 For now we see only a reflection
as in a mirror;
then we shall see
face to face.
Now I know in part;
then I shall know fully,
even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain:
~faith,
~hope and
~love.
But the greatest of these
~ is love.
~Quotes From A Letter~
To: The Corinthians
From: St. Paul