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.

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.

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.

⁴ Love$ has patience. It is kind. Love$ is not jealous. Love$ does not brag. It is not arrogant.

⁵ It does not behave improperly. It does not seek its own. It is not irritated. It is not reasoning evil.

⁶ It is not rejoicing in the unrighteousness, but is rejoicing together-with the truth.

⁷ It is forbearing all things. It is believing all things. It is hoping for all things. It is enduring all things.

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.

⁹ But we know partially and we prophesy partially;

¹⁰ but whenever the complete thing comes, then what is partially will be done-away.

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.

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