# 1 Corinthians 13 
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1. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
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2. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
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3. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 
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4. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
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5. or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
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6. it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
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7. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 
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8. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
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9. For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
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10. but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
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11. When 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.
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12. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 
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13. So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. 

(ESV)