OrthJBC - I Corinthians - 13

13:1  If in the leshonot (tongues) of bnei Adam and malachim I speak, but I do not have ahavah (agape), I have become only a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

13:2  And if I have nevu'ah (prophecy) and have da'as all sodot (mysteries) and all da'as (knowledge), and if I have all emunah (faith) so as to remove mountains, but ahavah (agape) I do not have, I am nothing.

13:3  And if I'm a marbitz tzedaka and give all I possess in gemilut chasadim and if I give my guf (body) in Kiddush Hashem for sereifah (death by burning), but ahavah (love) I do not have, I have gained nothing. [Daniel 3:28]

13:4  Ahavah (agape) suffers long, ahavah is kind, does not have kinah (jealousy), does not brag, is not puffed up in ga'avah (conceit),

13:5  does not behave shamelessly, does not insist in anochiyut (selfishness) on its own way, is not touchy and vindictive, keeping a record of wrongs (Zecharyah 8:17).

13:6  Ahavah does not find simcha in avlah (evil), but finds simcha in haEmes (the Truth).

13:7  Ahavah covers all things (Mishle 10:12), believes all things, has tikvah (hope), even zitzfleisch (patience) for all things.

13:8  Ahavah (love) never fails. However, divrei nevu'ah will be abolished; leshonot (tongues) will cease; da'as, it will come to an end.

13:9  For we have da'as in part, and we have divrei nevu'ah in part.

13:10  But when hashlamah comes, the olam katan will disappear.

13:11  When I was a yeled, I used to speak like one, think like one, reason like one. But when I have became mevugar (mature), I put away kinderyohrn (childhood days). [Tehillim 131:2]

13:12  For still we see through a mirror indistinctly. But then [in the Olam Haba], distinctly panim el panim (face to face, directly, in person). Now I have da'as only in part; then I will have da'as fully, even as also Hashem had full da'as of me. [Iyov 26:14; 36:26; Bereshis 32:30; Iyov 19:26]

13:13  But now remains emunah (faith), tikvah (hope), and ahavah (agape), these shlosh (three). And the greatest of these is ahavah (agape).