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| [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. |
[1]Though I speak with the tongues of men and Angels, and have not love, I am as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. |
| [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. |
[2]And though I had the gift of prophecy, and knew all secrets and all knowledge, yea, if I had all faith, so that I could remove mountains and had not love, I were nothing. |
| [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. |
[3]And though I feed the poor with all my goods, and though I give my body, that I be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing. |
| [4]Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, |
[4]Love suffereth long: it is bountiful: love envieth not: love doth not boast itself: it is not puffed up: |
| [5]Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; |
[5]It distaineth not: it seeketh not her own things: it is not provoked to anger: it thinketh not evil: |
| [6]Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; |
[6]It rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth: |
| [7]Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. |
[7]It suffereth all things: it believeth all things: it hopeth all things: it endureth all things. |
| [8]Charity never faileth: but whether there are prophecies, they shall fail; whether there are languages, they shall cease; whether there is knowledge, it shall vanish away. |
[8]Love doth never fall away, though that prophesyings be abolished, or the tongues cease, or knowledge vanish away. |
| [9]For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. |
[9]For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. |
| [10]But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. |
[10]But when that which is perfect, is come, then that which is in part, shall be abolished. |
| [11]When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. |
[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. |
| [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. |
[12]For now we see through a glass darkly: but then shall we see face to face. Now I know in part: but then shall I know even as I am known. |
| [13]And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. |
[13]And now abideth faith, hope and love, even these three: but the chiefest of these is love. |