1 If I should speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become a sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.10 but when the perfect should come, the partial will be made null.11 When I was a child, I was speaking like a child, I was thinking like a child, I was reasoning like a child; when I became a man, I have made null the [things] of the child.12 For now we see through a glass in obscurity, but then, face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.13 But now these three things remain: faith, hope, love; but the greatest of these [is] love.2 And if I should have prophecy and should understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.3 And if I should give away all my possessions, and if I should deliver up my body that I may boast, but have not love, I am profited nothing.4 Love is patient, it is kind; love does not envy, love does not boast, it is not puffed up.5 It does not act unbecomingly, it does not seek its own [things], it is not provoked, it keeps no reckoning of evil.6 It does not rejoice at unrighteousness, but it rejoices with the truth.7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.8 Love never fails; but if [there are] prophecies, they will be made null; and if [there are] tongues, they will cease; and if [there is] knowledge, it will be made null.9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part;