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| [1]Though I speake with the tongues of men and of Angels, and haue not loue, I am [as] soundyng brasse, or [as] a tincklyng Cimball |
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| [2]And though I coulde prophesie, and vnderstoode all secretes, and all knowledge: Yea, if I had all fayth, so that I coulde moue mountaynes out of their places, and haue not loue, I were nothyng |
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| [3]And though I bestowe all my goodes to feede the poore, and though I geue my body that I burned, and haue not loue, it profiteth me nothyng |
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| [4]Loue suffreth long, and is curteous: Loue enuieth not, loue doth not frowardely, swelleth not |
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| [5]Dealeth not dishonestlie, seeketh not her owne, is not prouoked to anger, thynketh none euyll |
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| [6]Reioyceth not in iniquitie: bur reioyceth in the trueth |
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| [7]Suffreth all thynges, beleueth all thynges, hopeth all thynges, endureth all thynges |
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| [8]Though ye prophesiynges fayle, other tongues ceasse, or knowledge vanishe away, [yet] loue falleth neuer away |
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| [9]For our knowledge is vnperfect, and our prophesiyng is vnperfect |
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| [10]But when that which is perfect, is come, then that which is vnperfect shalbe done away |
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| [11]When I was a chylde, I spake as a childe, I vnderstode as a childe, I imagined as a chylde: But assoone as I was a man, I put away chyldishnesse |
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| [12]Nowe we see in a glasse, euen in a darke speakyng: but then [shall we see] face to face. Nowe I knowe vnperfectly: but then shall I knowe euen as I am knowen |
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| [13]Nowe abydeth fayth, hope, and loue, these three, but the chiefe of these is loue |
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