1 WYC If Y speke with tungis of men and of aungels, and Y haue not charite, Y am maad as bras sownynge, or a cymbal tynkynge. 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 WYC And if Y haue prophecie, and knowe alle mysteries, and al kunnynge, and if Y haue al feith, so that Y meue hillis fro her place, and Y haue not charite, Y am nouyt. 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 WYC And if Y departe alle my goodis in to the metis of pore men, and yf Y bitake my bodi, so that Y brenne, and if Y haue not charite, it profitith to me no thing. 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 WYC Charite is pacient, it is benygne; charite enuyeth not, it doith not wickidli, it is not blowun, BSB BSB: Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 WYC it is not coueytouse, it sekith not tho thingis that ben hise owne, it is not stirid to wraththe, it thenkith not yuel, BSB BSB: It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
6 WYC it ioyeth not on wickidnesse, but it ioieth togidere to treuthe; BSB BSB: Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
7 WYC it suffrith alle thingis, it bileueth alle thingis, it hopith alle thingis, it susteyneth alle thingis. BSB BSB: It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 WYC Charite fallith neuere doun, whether prophecies schulen be voidid, ethir langagis schulen ceesse, ethir science schal be distried. 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 WYC For a parti we knowun, and a parti we prophecien; BSB BSB: For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10 WYC but whanne that schal come that is parfit, that thing that is of parti schal be auoidid. BSB BSB: but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.
11 WYC Whanne Y was a litil child, Y spak as a litil child, Y vndurstood as a litil child, Y thouyte as a litil child; but whanne Y was maad a man, Y auoidide tho thingis that weren of a litil 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 WYC And we seen now bi a myrour in derknesse, but thanne face to face; now Y knowe of parti, but thanne Y schal knowe, as Y am knowun. 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 WYC And now dwellen feith, hope, and charite, these thre; but the most of these is charite. BSB BSB: And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
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