1 Corinthians 13, side by side

¹If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.

¹Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

²If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

²And 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.

³If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.

³And 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.

⁴Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

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

⁵It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.

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

⁶Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.

⁶Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

⁷It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

⁷Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

⁸Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed.

⁸Charity 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.

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

⁹For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

¹⁰but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.

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

¹¹When 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 set aside childish ways.

¹¹When 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.

¹²Now we see but a dim 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.

¹²For 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.

¹³And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.

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