Geneva1599 - I Corinthians - 13

13:1  Though I speake with the tongues of men and Angels, and haue not loue, I am as sounding brasse, or a tinkling cymbal.

13:2  And though I had the gift of prophecie, and knewe all secrets and all knowledge, yea, if I had all faith, so that I could remooue mountaines and had not loue, I were nothing.

13:3  And though I feede the poore with all my goods, and though I giue my body, that I be burned, and haue not loue, it profiteth me nothing.

13:4  Loue suffreth long: it is bountifull: loue enuieth not: loue doeth not boast it selfe: it is not puffed vp:

13:5  It doeth no vncomely thing: it seeketh not her owne things: it is not prouoked to anger: it thinketh not euill:

13:6  It reioyceth not in iniquitie, but reioyceth in the trueth:

13:7  It suffreth all things: it beleeueth all things: it hopeth all things: it endureth all things.

13:8  Loue doeth neuer fall away, though that prophecyings be abolished, or the tongues cease, or knowledge vanish away.

13:9  For we knowe in part, and we prophecie in part.

13:10  But when that which is perfect, is come, then that which is in part, shalbe abolished.

13:11  When I was a childe, I spake as a childe, I vnderstoode as a childe, I thought as a childe: but when I became a man, I put away childish thinges.

13:12  For nowe we see through a glasse darkely: but then shall wee see face to face. Nowe I know in part: but then shall I know euen as I am knowen.

13:13  And nowe abideth faith, hope and loue, euen these three: but the chiefest of these is loue.