Dual Panel1I may speak in tongues of men or of angels, but if I have no love, I am a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
2I may have the gift of prophecy and the knowledge of every hidden truth; I may have faith enough to move mountains; but if I have no love, I am nothing.
3I may give all I possess to the needy, I may give my body to be burnt, but if I have no love, I gain nothing by it.
4Love is patient and kind. Love envies no one, is never boastful, never conceited,
5never rude; love is never selfish, never quick to take offence. Love keeps no score of wrongs,
6takes no pleasure in the sins of others, but delights in the truth.
7There is nothing love cannot face; there is no limit to its faith, its hope, its endurance.
8Love will never come to an end. Prophecies will cease; tongues of ecstasy will fall silent; knowledge will vanish.
9For our knowledge and our prophecy alike are partial,
10and the partial vanishes when wholeness comes.
11When I was a child I spoke like a child, thought like a child, reasoned like a child; but when I grew up I finished with childish things.
12At present we see only puzzling reflections in a mirror, but one day we shall see face to face. My knowledge now is partial; then it will be whole, like God's knowledge of me.
13There are three things that last for ever: faith, hope, and love; and the greatest of the three is love.