1 If perhaps I would speak in the languages of men and of Messengers, but I do not have love, I have become brass sounding or a cymbal clanging.2 And if I have the gift of interpretation of prophecy, and I know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if perhaps I have all the faith so as to remove mountains, but I do not have love, I am naught.3 And if perhaps I employ all my possessions in feeding others, and if I would hand over my body in order that I may boast, but I do not have love, I am due nothing.4 Love has patience, is beneficial, love is not jealous, love does not vaunt itself, is not inflated,5 does not behave disgracefully, seeks not things for itself, is not provoked, does not consider evil,6 does not rejoice upon injustice, but rejoices with the truth;7 contains all, trusts all, expects all, endures all.8 Love never fails. But whether interpretations of prophecy, they shall be abolished; or languages, they shall be brought to an end; or knowledge, it shall be left unemployed.9 By destiny we know, and by destiny we interpret prophecy;10 but when the fulfillment would come, that by destiny shall be abolished.11 When I was an infant, I spoke as an infant, I thought as an infant, I reasoned as an infant. When I had become a man, I laid aside the things of the infant.12 For now we see through a mirror in riddles, but then face to face; now I know by destiny, but then I will recognize just as also I have been recognized.13 And now, abide in faith, expectation, love, these three things; but the greater of these is love.