1 Corinthians 13:1-8

1Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2And 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. 3And 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.

4Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,1 5Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;2 7Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

8Charity never faileth: but whetherthere areprophecies, they shall be done away; whetherthere aretongues, they shall cease; whetherthere isknowledge, it shall vanish away.3