1 Corinthians 13

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
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.	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 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.	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 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.	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 is patient, is kind. Charity does not envy, does not act wrongly, is not inflated.	4 Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated,
5 Charity is not ambitious, does not seek for itself, is not provoked to anger, devises 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 Charity does not rejoice over iniquity, but rejoices in truth.	6 it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.
7 Charity suffers all, believes all, hopes all, endures all.	7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Charity is never torn away, even if prophecies pass away, or languages cease, or knowledge is destroyed.	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 only in part, and we prophesy only in part.	9 For we know partially and we prophesy partially,
10 But when the perfect arrives, the imperfect passes away.	10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
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.	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 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.	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 But for now, these three continue: faith, hope, and charity. And the greatest of these is charity.	13 So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.