Love 1 DRA If I speak with the tongues of men, and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. BSB BSB: If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 DRA And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries, and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. BSB BSB: If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3 DRA And if I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if I should deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. BSB BSB: If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 DRA Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely; is not puffed up; BSB BSB: Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 DRA Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil; BSB BSB: It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
6 DRA Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth with the truth; BSB BSB: Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
7 DRA Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. BSB BSB: It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 DRA Charity never falleth away: whether prophecies shall be made void, or tongues shall cease, or knowledge shall be destroyed. BSB BSB: Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed.
9 DRA For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. BSB BSB: For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10 DRA But when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away. BSB BSB: but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.
11 DRA 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 the things of a child. BSB BSB: When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.
12 DRA We see now through a glass in a dark manner; but then face to face. Now I know I part; but then I shall know even as I am known. BSB BSB: Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 DRA And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity. BSB BSB: And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.