1 Corinthians 13:4-13 ▼

4 Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love boasts not; is not vain,

5 does nothing unbecoming, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil,

6 rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

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

8 Love never fails; but whether there be gifts of prophecy, they shall have an end; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall have an end.

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

10 but when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part shall have an end.

11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I had the mind of a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

12 Now we see through a mirror, obscurely; but then, face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know, even as I am known.

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