# 1 Corinthians 13 (New King James Version)
The Greatest Gift

##### Chapter 13
###### 1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging 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, but have not love, I am nothing.  
###### 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed _the poor,_ and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

###### 4 Love suffers long _and_ is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;  
###### 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;  
###### 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;  
###### 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

###### 8 Love never fails. But whether _there are_ prophecies, they will fail; whether _there are_ tongues, they will cease; whether _there is_ knowledge, it will vanish away.  
###### 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part.  
###### 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

###### 11 When I was a child, I spoke 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 in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

###### 13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these _is_ love.