1 Corinthians 13

NEW JERUSALEM	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
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 were to speak in the language of men, or of Angels, yet not have charity, I would be like a clanging bell or a crashing 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 have prophecy, and learn every mystery, and obtain all knowledge, and possess all faith, so that I could move mountains, yet not have charity, then 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 distribute all my goods in order to feed the poor, and if I hand over my body to be burned, yet not have charity, it offers 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 does not envy, does not act wrongly, is not inflated.
5 it is never rude and never seeks its own advantage, it does not take offence or store up grievances.	5 Charity is not ambitious, does not seek for itself, is not provoked to anger, devises no evil.
6 Love does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but finds its joy in the truth.	6 Charity does not rejoice over iniquity, but rejoices in truth.
7 It is always ready to make al owances, to trust, to hope and to endure whatever comes.	7 Charity suffers all, believes all, hopes all, endures all.
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 is never torn away, even if prophecies pass away, or languages cease, or knowledge is destroyed.
9 For we know only imperfectly, and we prophesy imperfectly;	9 For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part.
10 but once perfection comes, al imperfect things wil be done away with.	10 But when the perfect arrives, the imperfect passes 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 like a child, I understood like a child, I thought like a child. But when I became a man, I put aside 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 Now we see through a glass darkly. But then we shall see face to face. Now I know in 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 But for now, these three continue: faith, hope, and charity. And the greatest of these is charity.