1 Corinthians 13


 * If I speak in tongues of men, and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
 * If I have the gift of prophesy, and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, but have not love, I am nothing.
 * If I give all I posess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
 * Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
 * Love is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered. Love keeps no record of wrongs.
 * Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices in truth.
 * It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.


 * Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
 * For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.
 * When I was a child, I talked as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things.
 * For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face.
 * Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
 * And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.