13 If I speak in the tongues   of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy  and can fathom all mysteries  and all knowledge,  and if I have a faith  that can move mountains,  but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor  and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,   but do not have love, I gain nothing. 
4 Love is patient,  love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking,  it is not easily angered,  it keeps no record of wrongs.  6 Love does not delight in evil  but rejoices with the truth.  7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.  
8 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. 9 For we know in part  and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes,  what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood  behind me. 12 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.  
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.  But the greatest of these is love.