1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. Compare verse8 commentaries
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. Compare verse11 commentaries
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profits me nothing. Compare verse13 commentaries
4 Charity suffers long, and is kind; charity envies not; charity braggs not itself, is not puffed up, Compare verse10 commentaries
5 Does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil; Compare verse6 commentaries
8 Charity never fails: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. Compare verse8 commentaries
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. Compare verse7 commentaries
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. Compare verse8 commentaries
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. Compare verse14 commentaries
13 And now stays faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. Compare verse10 commentaries