1 Corinthians 13:4-13 ▼

4 Love is patient, love is kind, is not jealous, does not brag, is not puffed up;

5 it does not act unbecomingly, does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered;

6 it does not rejoice in 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; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away.

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

10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.

11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child. When I became a man, I did away with childish things.

12 For 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 also have been fully known.

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