13:1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
13:1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

13:2 And if I have (the gift of) prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
13:2 And if I have [the gift of] prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

13:3 And if I bestow all my goods to feed (the poor), and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
13:3 And if I give all my possessions to feed [the poor,] and if I deliver my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.

13:4 Love suffereth long, (and) is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
13:4 Love is patient, love is kind, [and] is not jealous; love does not brag [and] is not arrogant,

13:5 doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;
13:5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong [suffered,]

13:6 rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;
13:6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

13:7 beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
13:7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

13:8 Love never faileth: but whether (there be) prophecies, they shall be done away; whether (there be) tongues, they shall cease; whether (there be) knowledge, it shall be done away.
13:8 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.

13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;

13:10 but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.
13:10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.

13:11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.
13:11 When I was a child, I used to speak as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.

13:12 For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known.
13:12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall know fully just as I also have been fully known.

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