1If I speak in the tongues13:1 Or languages of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,13:3 Some manuscripts body to the flames but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11When 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 put the ways of childhood behind me. 12For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
愛的真諦
1我就算能說人類和天使的各種語言，如果沒有愛，也不過是咣咣作響的鑼和鈸。 2我就算能作先知講道，又明白各種奧祕，而且知識淵博，甚至有移開山嶺的信心，如果沒有愛，也一無是處。 3我就算傾家蕩產賙濟窮人，甚至捨己捐軀任人焚燒13·3 「捨己捐軀任人焚燒」有古卷作「為了誇口而捨己捐軀」。，如果沒有愛，也一無所獲。
4愛是恆久忍耐，又有恩慈；愛是不嫉妒，不自吹自擂，不驕傲自大， 5不魯莽無禮，不自私自利，不輕易動怒，不懷怨記恨， 6不喜愛不義，只喜愛真理； 7凡事能包容，凡事有信心，凡事有盼望，凡事能忍耐。
8愛永不止息。然而，先知講道的恩賜終會過去，說方言的恩賜也會停止，知識也將成為過去。 9我們現在知道的有限，作先知所講的也有限， 10等那全備的來到，這有限的事都要被廢棄。
11當我是小孩子的時候，我的思想、言語和推理都像小孩子，長大後，我就把一切幼稚的事丟棄了。 12如今我們好像對著鏡子觀看影像，模糊不清，但將來會面對面。現在我所知道的有限，但將來會完全知道，如同主知道我一樣。
13如今常存的有信、望、愛這三樣，其中最偉大的是愛。
