| 1 | Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels , and have not charity , I am become [as] sounding brass , or a tinkling cymbal . |
| 2 | And though I have [the gift of] prophecy , and understand all mysteries , and all knowledge ; and though I have all faith , so that I could remove mountains , and have not charity , I am nothing . |
| 3 | And though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and though I give my body to be burned , and have not charity , it profiteth me nothing . |
| 4 | Charity suffereth long , [and] is kind ; charity envieth not ; charity vaunteth not itself , is not puffed up , |
| 5 | Doth not behave itself unseemly , seeketh not her own , is not easily provoked , thinketh no evil ; |
| 6 | Rejoiceth not in iniquity , but rejoiceth in the truth ; |
| 7 | Beareth all things , believeth all things , hopeth all things , endureth all things . |
| 8 | Charity never faileth : but whether [there be] prophecies , they shall fail ; whether [there be] tongues , they shall cease ; whether [there be] knowledge , it shall vanish away . |
| 9 | For we know in part , and we prophesy in part . |
| 10 | But when that which is perfect is come , then that which is in part shall be done away . |
| 11 | When I was a child , I spake as a child , I understood as a child , I thought as a child : but when I became a man , I put away childish things . |
| 12 | For now we see through a glass , darkly ; but then face to face : now I know in part ; but then shall I know even as also I am known . |
| 13 | And now abideth faith , hope , charity , these three ; but the greatest of these [is] charity . |
