4Love is patient, and kind; love does not envy; nor boast. It is not proud, 5Nor rude, nor self-seeking, nor easily angered, nor resentful, 6It disdains evil, but rejoices in the truth; 7Love endures all things, trusts and hopes in all things.

8Love never fails; but where there are prophecies, they shall cease; where there are tongues, or knowledge, they shall become useless. 9For now we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 10But when that time of perfection and completeness comes, then those things that are in part (imperfect or incomplete) shall be done away with. 11When I was a child, I thought, understood, and spoke like a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12For now we see only a dim picture, as in a foggy mirror; but then we shall see face to face; now we know in only part; but then we shall know even as we are also fully known. 13And now these three things remain - faith, hope, love; but the greatest of these is love.