1 If 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 If I speak with the tongues of men, and of Angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2 And if I should have prophecy, and knew all mysteries, and all knowledge, & if I should have all faith so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
2 And if I should have prophecy, and knew all mysteries, and all knowledge, & if I should have all faith so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
3 And if I should distribute all my goods to be meat for the poor, and if I should deliver my body so that I burn, and have not charity, it doth profit me nothing.
3 And if I should distribute all my goods to be meat for the poor, and if I should deliver my body so that I burn, and have not charity, it doth profit me nothing.
4 Charity is patient, is benign: Charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely: is not puffed up,
4 Charity is patient, is benign: Charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely: is not puffed up,
5 is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh not evil,
5 is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh not evil,
6 rejoiceth not upon iniquity, but rejoiceth with the truth:
6 rejoiceth not upon iniquity, but rejoiceth with the truth:
7 suffereth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, beareth all things.
7 suffereth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, beareth all things.
8 Charity never falleth away: whether prophecies shall be made void, or tongues shall cease, or knowledge shall be destroyed.
8 Charity never falleth away: whether prophecies shall be made void, or tongues shall cease, or knowledge shall be destroyed.
9 For in part we know, & in part we prophesy.
9 For in part we know, & in part we prophesy.
10 But when that shall come that is perfect, that shall be made void that is in part.
10 But when that shall come that is perfect, that shall be made void that is in part.
11 When I was a little one, I spake as a little one, I understood as a little one, I thought as a little one. But when I was made a man, I did away the things that belonged to a little one.
11 When I was a little one, I spake as a little one, I understood as a little one, I thought as a little one. But when I was made a man, I did away the things that belonged to a little one.
12 We see now by a glass in a dark sort: but then face to face. Now I know in part: but then I shall know as also I am known.
12 We see now by a glass in a dark sort: but then face to face. Now I know in part: but then I shall know as also I am known.
13 And now there remain, faith, hope, charity, these three: but the greater of these is charity.
13 And now there remain, faith, hope, charity, these three: but the greater of these is charity.