Ad Corinthios I 13

VULGATA	Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
1 Si linguis hominum loquar, et angelorum, caritatem autem non habeam, factus sum velut æs sonans, aut cymbalum tinniens.	1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 Et si habuero prophetiam, et noverim mysteria omnia, et omnem scientiam : et si habuero omnem fidem ita ut montes transferam, caritatem autem non habuero, nihil sum.	2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3 Et si distribuero in cibos pauperum omnes facultates meas, et si tradidero corpus meum ita ut ardeam, caritatem autem non habuero, nihil mihi prodest.	3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Caritas patiens est, benigna est. Caritas non æmulatur, non agit perperam, non inflatur,	4 Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful;
5 non est ambitiosa, non quærit quæ sua sunt, non irritatur, non cogitat malum,	5 it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
6 non gaudet super iniquitate, congaudet autem veritati :	6 it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.
7 omnia suffert, omnia credit, omnia sperat, omnia sustinet.	7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Caritas numquam excidit : sive prophetiæ evacuabuntur, sive linguæ cessabunt, sive scientia destruetur.	8 Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
9 Ex parte enim cognoscimus, et ex parte prophetamus.	9 For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect;
10 Cum autem venerit quod perfectum est, evacuabitur quod ex parte est.	10 but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away.
11 Cum essem parvulus, loquebar ut parvulus, sapiebam ut parvulus, cogitabam ut parvulus. Quando autem factus sum vir, evacuavi quæ erant parvuli.	11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
12 Videmus nunc per speculum in ænigmate : tunc autem facie ad faciem. Nunc cognosco ex parte : tunc autem cognoscam sicut et cognitus sum.	12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood.
13 Nunc autem manent fides, spes, caritas, tria hæc : major autem horum est caritas.	13 So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.