13:1 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:

13:2 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:

13:3 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:

13:4 Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up:

13:5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil:

13:6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth:

13:7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things:

13:8 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:

13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part:

13:10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away:

13:11 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:

13:12 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:

13:13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these [is] charity: