I Corinthians 13 literal translation
- If with the tongues of men I speak,
and of angels,
Love I do not have,
I have become a gong resounding or cymbal clanging.
- And if I have the gift of prophecy,
and know mysteries all,
and all knowledge,
and even if I have all faith that mountains move,
Love I do not have, nothing I am.
- And even if I shared all food I have,
and even if I surrender the body so I may be burned
Love I do not have, no one I bring advantage.
- Love is generous, virtuous,
Love does not envy,
Love does not boast, not proud is.
- Not rude, not seeking itself,
not become embittered, not keeps records of wrongs.
- Not she delights in evil, she delights in truth
- All she protects, all she trusts, all she hopes, all she perseveres.
- Love never she fails. Be it prophecies, they will cease,
Be it tongues, they will be stilled, be it knowledge it will cease.
- Only imperfectly we know and imperfectly we prophesy
- When comes perfection, the imperfect will cease.
- When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.
When I became a man, I have laid down the things of a child.
- We see now through a mirror in riddles, then we shall see face to face. Now I know in
part, then I shall know fully, and be known fully.
- So remain, Faith, Hope and Love, these three. But the greatest of these is Love.