1909–14. The First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians XIII
[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. [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. [3 ] And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to 1 be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing. [4 ] Love suffereth long, and is king; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, [5 ] doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil; [6 ] rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth; [7 ] beareth 2 all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. [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. [9 ] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; [10 ] but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away. [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. [12 ] For now we see in a mirror, darkly; 3 but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known. [13 ] But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest 4 of these is love.
