1 Corinthians 13

Paul declares that without charity, all gifts are nothing — tongues, prophecy, knowledge, and even faith that moves mountains amount to nothing without love. Charity suffers long and is kind, does not envy or boast, bears all things and endures all things. Prophecies, tongues, and knowledge will pass away, but faith, hope, and charity abide — and the greatest of these is charity.

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1	Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.	If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels but have not charity, I am only a resounding gong 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 charity, I am nothing.	If I have the gift of prophecy and can understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have faith that can move mountains, but have not charity, 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 charity, it profiteth me nothing.	If I give all I possess to the poor and give my body to be burned, but have not charity, I gain nothing.
4	Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,	Charity is patient. Charity is kind. It does not envy. It does not boast. It is not proud.
5	Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;	It does not behave rudely. It is not self-seeking. It is not easily angered. It keeps no record of wrongs.
6	Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;	It does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
7	Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.	It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8	Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.	Charity 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.	For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10	But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.	but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.
11	When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.	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 childish ways behind me.
12	For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.	Now we see through a glass, darkly — but then face to face. Now I know in part; but then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13	And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.	And now these three remain: faith, hope, and charity. But the greatest of these is charity.