[1 Corinthians 13]

 

             ^13:1 If I speak with the languages of men, and even of messengers, but do not have love^*, I have become like noisy brass or a clanging cymbal. ^13:2 And if I have the gift of prophecy and if I know all the mysteries and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so-then to remove mountains, but if I do not have love^*, I am nothing. ^13:3 And if I should morsel out {i.e., give away little by little} all my possessions and if I give my body in-order-that I would be burned, but if I do not have love^*, I am profited nothing. ^13:4 Love^* has patience. It is kind. Love^* is not jealous. Love^* does not brag. It is not arrogant. ^13:5 It does not behave improperly. It does not seek its own. It is not irritated. It is not reasoning evil. ^13:6 It is not rejoicing in the unrighteousness, but is rejoicing together-with the truth. ^13:7 It is forbearing all things. It is believing all things. It is hoping for all things. It is enduring all things. ^13:8 Love^* never falls short.

             But if there are prophecies, they will be done-away; if there are foreign languages, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done-away.

             ^13:9 But we know partially and we prophesy partially; ^13:10 but whenever the complete thing comes, then what is partially will be done-away. ^13:11 When I was an infant, I was speaking like an infant, I had the mindset like that of an infant, I was reasoning like an infant. But when I became a man, I have done-away-with the things of the infant. ^13:12 For^* now we see through a mirror, in an enigma {i.e., dimly}, but then face to face. I know now partially, but then I will fully know just-as I was also fully known.

             ^13:13 But these three things remain now: faith, hope, love^*, and the greater of these is love^*.