哥林多前书 第 13 章
1我若能说万人的方言，并天使的话语，却没有爱，我就成了鸣的锣，响的钹一般。
1Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2我若有先知讲道之能，也明白各样的奥秘，各样的知识，而且有全备的信，叫我能够移山，却没有爱，我就算不得什么。
2And 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.
3我若将所有的周济穷人，又舍己身叫人焚烧，却没有爱，仍然与我无益。
3And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
4爱是恒久忍耐，又有恩慈；爱是不嫉妒；爱是不自夸，不张狂，
4Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5不做害羞的事，不求自己的益处，不轻易发怒，不计算人的恶，
5Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
7凡事包容，凡事相信，凡事盼望，凡事忍耐。
7Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8爱是永不止息。先知讲道之能终必归于无有；说方言之能终必停止；知识也终必归于无有。
8Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
10等那完全的来到，这有限的必归于无有了。
10But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11我作孩子的时候，话语像孩子，心思像孩子，意念像孩子，既成了人，就把孩子的事丢弃了。
11When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.