1 Corinthians 13

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
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.	1 If I speak with the tongues of men, and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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.	2 And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries, and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am 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.	3 And if I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if I should deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
4 Love is always patient and kind; love is never jealous; love is not boastful or conceited,	4 Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely; is not puffed up;
5 it is never rude and never seeks its own advantage, it does not take offence or store up grievances.	5 Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil;
6 Love does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but finds its joy in the truth.	6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth with the truth;
7 It is always ready to make al owances, to trust, to hope and to endure whatever comes.	7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
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.	8 Charity never falleth away: whether prophecies shall be made void, or tongues shall cease, or knowledge shall be destroyed.
9 For we know only imperfectly, and we prophesy imperfectly;	9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 but once perfection comes, al imperfect things wil be done away with.	10 But when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.
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.	11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But, when I became a man, I put away the things of a child.
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.	12 We see now through a glass in a dark manner; but then face to face. Now I know I part; but then I shall know even as I am known.
13 As it is, these remain: faith, hope and love, the three of them; and the greatest of them is love.	13 And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity.