If in the tongues of men I shall speak, and of angels, love however not may have, I have become a brass sounding, or a cymbal clanging.

And if I shall have prophecy and shall have understood the mysteries all, and all the knowledge, And if I shall have all the faith, so as mountains to remove, love however not may have, nothing I am.

Even if I shall give away all the possessions of me, And if I shall deliver up the body of me that I may boast, love however not may have, nothing I am profited.

not acts unbecomingly; not seeks the things of its own, not is easily provoked, not it keeps account of wrongs;

not delights at unrighteousness, rejoices however in the truth.

All things it bears, all things believes, all things hopes, all things endures.

In part for we know, and in part we prophesy;

when however may come the perfect, the in part will be done away.

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 done away with the things of the child.

We see for presently, through a glass in obscurity; then however, face to face; presently, I know in part; then however I will know fully, as also I have been fully known.

Now however abide faith, hope, love, three these; [the] greatest however of these [is] love.