1 Corinthians 13

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.	1 If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal.
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.	2 And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.	3 If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,	4 Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;	5 it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;	6 it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.	7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.	8 Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.	9 For we know partially and we prophesy partially,
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.	10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.	11 When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things.
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.	12 At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known.
13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.	13 So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.