| New International Version | King James Bible |
| 1If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. | 1Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. |
| 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. | 2And 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. |
| 3If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. | 3And 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. |
| 4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. | 4Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, |
| 5It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. | 5Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; |
| 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. | 6Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; |
| 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. | 7Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. |
| 8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. | 8Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. |
| 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, | 9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. |
| 10but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. | 10But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done 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 put the ways of childhood behind me. | 11When 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. |
| 12For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. | 12For 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. |
| 13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. | 13And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. |
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