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 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. 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. Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely; is not puffed up;
5. Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil;
6. Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth with the truth;
7. Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8. Charity never falleth away: whether prophecies shall be made void, or tongues shall cease, or knowledge shall be destroyed.
9. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.