1 Corinthians 13

The Way of Love

 ¹If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. ²And if I have^(A) prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith,^(B) so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ^3(C) If I give away all I have, and^(D) if I deliver up my body to be burned,^[a] but have not love, I gain nothing. ^4(E) Love is patient and^(F) kind; love^(G) does not envy or boast; it^(H) is not arrogant ⁵or rude. It^(I) does not insist on its own way; it^(J) is not irritable or resentful;^{[b] 6}it^(K) does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but^(L) rejoices with the truth. ^7(M) Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,^(N) endures all things.

 ⁸Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹For^(O) we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰but^(P) when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. ¹¹When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. ¹²For^(Q) now we see in a mirror dimly, but^(R) then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as^(S) I have been fully known.

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