1Corinthians 13

Love Is the Greatest

13If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.G1437G2980G1100G444G2532G32G1161G2192G3361G26G1096G2278G5475G2228G214G29502If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God's secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn't love others, I would be nothing.G2532G1437G2192G4394G2532G1492G3956G3466G2532G3956G1108G2532G1437G2192G3956G4102G5620G3179G3735G1161G2192G3361G26G1510G37623If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it

; but if I didn't love others, I would have gained nothing.G2532G1437G5595G3956G3450G5224G5595G2532G1437G3860G3450G4983G2443G2545G1161G2192G3361G26G5623G37624Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proudG26G3114G5541G26G2206G3756G26G4068G3756G4068G5448G3756G54485or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.G807G3756G807G2212G3756G1438G3947G3756G3947G3049G3756G25566It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.G5463G3756G1909G93G1161G4796G2257Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.G4722G3956G4100G3956G1679G3956G5278G39568Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages

and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever!G26G3763G1601G1161G1535G4394G2673G1535G1100G3973G1535G1108G26739Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture!G1063G1097G1537G3313G2532G4395G1537G331310But when full understanding comes, these partial things will become useless.G1161G3752G5046G2064G5119G1537G3313G267311When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things.G3753G2252G3516G2980G5613G3516G5426G5613G3516G3049G5613G3516G1161G3753G1096G435G2673G351612Now we see things imperfectly as in a cloudy mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity

. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.G1063G737G991G1223G2072G1722G135G1161G5119G4383G4314G4383G737G1097G1537G3313G1161G5119G1921G2531G2532G192113Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.G1161G3570G3306G4102G1680G26G5023G5140G1161G3187G5130G26