If I speak in the tongues a of men and of angels, but have not 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 have not love, I am nothing.
3 If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not 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 is not rude,
- 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 perfection comes, the imperfect 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 childish ways behind me.
12 Now we see but a poor 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.

The Holy Bible : New International Version. 1996, c1984 (electronic ed.) (1 Co 13:1-13). Grand Rapids: Zondervan.