The First to the Corinthians, 13
1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels but do not have love, I have become a clanging gong or a clashing cymbal.
2 And if I have the gift of prophecy and understand all the sacred secrets and all knowledge, and if I have all the faith so as to move*1 mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.*2
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3 And if I give all my belongings to feed others, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I do not benefit at all.
4 Love is patient*1 and kind. Love is not jealous. It does not brag, does not get puffed up,
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5 does not behave indecently,*1 does not look for its own interests, does not become provoked. It does not keep account of the injury.*2
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6 It does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth.
7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away with; if there are tongues,*1 they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away with.
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9 For we have partial knowledge and we prophesy partially,
10 but when what is complete comes, what is partial will be done away with.
11 When I was a child, I used to speak as a child, to think as a child, to reason as a child; but now that I have become a man, I have done away with the traits of a child.
12 For now we see in hazy outline*1 by means of a metal mirror, but then it will be face-to-face. At present I know partially, but then I will know accurately,*2 just as I am accurately known.
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13 Now, however, these three remain: faith, hope, love; but the greatest of these is love.