THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 13

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1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal ⚑

2 And 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 ⚑

3 And 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 ⚑

4 Charity suffereth long and is kind charity envieth not charity vaunteth not itself is not puffed up ⚑

5 Doth not behave itself unseemly seeketh not her own is not easily provoked thinketh no evil ⚑

6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity but rejoiceth in the truth ⚑

7 Beareth all things believeth all things hopeth all things endureth all things ⚑

8 Charity never faileth but whether there be prophecies they shall fail whether there be tongues they shall cease whether there be knowledge it shall vanish away ⚑

9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part ⚑

10 But when that which is perfect is come then that which is in part shall be done away ⚑

11 When I was a child I spake as a child I understood as a child I thought as a child but when I became a man I put away childish things ⚑

12 For now we see through a glass darkly but then face to face now I know in part but then shall I know even as also I am known ⚑

13 And now abideth faith hope charity these three but the greatest of these is charity ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain