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
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
If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4
Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful;
5
it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.