1 Corinthians 13

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW JERUSALEM
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 Though I command languages both human and angelic -- if I speak without love, I am no more than agong booming or a cymbal clashing.
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 though I have the power of prophecy, to penetrate al mysteries and knowledge, and though Ihave all the faith necessary to move mountains -- if I am without 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 Though I should give away to the poor al that I possess, and even give up my body to be burned -- if Iam without love, it wil do me no good whatever.
4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,	4 Love is always patient and kind; love is never jealous; love is not boastful or conceited,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;	5 it is never rude and never seeks its own advantage, it does not take offence or store up grievances.
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;	6 Love does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but finds its joy in the truth.
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.	7 It is always ready to make al owances, to trust, to hope and to endure whatever comes.
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 comes to an end. But if there are prophecies, they will be done away with; if tongues, theywil fall silent; and if knowledge, it wil be done away with.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.	9 For we know only imperfectly, and we prophesy imperfectly;
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.	10 but once perfection comes, al imperfect things wil be done away with.
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 like a child, and see things as a child does, and think like a child;but now that I have become an adult, I have finished with al childish ways.
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 Now we see only reflections in a mirror, mere riddles, but then we shal be seeing face to face. Now Ican know only imperfectly; but then I shal know just as fully as I am myself known.
13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.	13 As it is, these remain: faith, hope and love, the three of them; and the greatest of them is love.