1 Corinthians 13 - Amplified Bible(AMP)

The Excellence of Love

1If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, then I have become only a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

2And if I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

3If I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it does me no good at all.

4Love endures with patience and serenity, love is kind and thoughtful, and is not jealous or envious; love does not brag and is not proud or arrogant.

5It is not rude; it is not self-seeking, it is not provoked; it does not take into account a wrong endured.

6It does not rejoice at injustice, but rejoices with the truth.

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

8Love never fails. But as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for the gift of special knowledge, it will pass away.

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

10But when that which is complete and perfect comes, that which is incomplete and partial will pass 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 did away with childish things.

12For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known.

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