1. If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;
2. and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;
3. and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.
4. The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,
5. doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,
6. rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth;