If I speak with the tongues of the earth

If the angels fill my mouth

Yet do not have love, I am but a sound

If I prophesy and understand all things

If mountains shake by my faith

Without love I am nothing at all



Love is patient, love is kind

Love rejoices in the truth

It bears all things, believes all things, it hopes all things, endures all things

Love never fails



If I give away everything I own

Give my body to be burned

Yet do not have love, I gain nothing more

Prophecies will cease

Tongues will be silent

Knowledge will be no more, the partial will pass away



Love is patient, love is kind

Love rejoices in the truth

It bears all things, believes all things, it hopes all things, endures all things

Love never fails



When I was a child

I talked, thought, and lived like a child

But now that I have grown, I have put these things aside

My knowledge is imperfect now

Then I'll know as I am known

That faith, hope and love remain

And the greatest of these is love



Love is patient, love is kind

Love rejoices in the truth

It bears all things, believes all things, it hopes all things, endures all things

Love never fails