KJ3 Literal Translation
1 Corinthians 13
1 All gifts, 2,3 however excellent, are worth nothing without love. 4 The praises of it.
1If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
2And if I have prophecies, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
3And if I give out all my possesssions, and if I give over my body that I be burned, but I do not have love, I am profited nothing.
4Love patiently endures, is kind; love is not envious; love boasts not itself, is not puffed up;
5does not behave unbecomingly, does not seek the things of itself, is not easily provoked, does not impute evil;
6does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices in the truth.
7Love quietly covers all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8Love never fails. But if there are prophecies, they will be caused to cease; if tongues, they shall cease; if knowledge, it will be caused to cease.
9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
10but when the perfect thing comes, then that which is in part will be caused to cease.
11When I was a little child, I spoke as a little child, I thought as a little child, I reasoned as a little child. But when I have become a man, I did away with the things of the little child.
12For now we see through a mirror in dimness, but then face to face. Now I know by part, but then I will fully know even as I also was fully known.
13And now faith, hope, and love, these three things remain; but the greatest of these is love.
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