ts of performing
cures, aids, governments, different tongues. [12:29]Are all apostles?
are all prophets? are all teachers? are all powers? [12:30]have all
gifts of performing cures? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
[12:31]But desire earnestly the best gifts: and I will still more fully
show you the way.

5 [13:1]If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not
love, I am a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. [13:2]And if I have
prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge, and if I
have all faith so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am
nothing. [13:3]And if I deal out all my property to feed the poor, and
if I deliver my body to be burned, and have not love, I shall not be
profited.

6 [13:4]Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love is not
boastful, is not puffed up, [13:5]does not behave unbecomingly, seeks
not her own, is not easily provoked, devises not evil, [13:6]rejoices
not in wickedness, but rejoices in the truth; [13:7]bears all things,
believes all things, hopes for all things, and endures all things.

7 [13:8]Love never fails; but if there are prophecies, they shall pass
away; if tongues, they shall cease; if knowledge, it shall pass away.
[13:9]And we know in part and we prophesy in part; [13:10]when the
perfect has come, that which is in part shall pass away. [13:11]When I
was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a
child; when I became a man I put away childish things. [13:12]For now
we see by a mirror darkly, but then we shall see face to face; now I
know in part, but then I shall know fully as I also am known.
[13:13]And now remain faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest
of these is love.

8 [14:1]Cherish love, and be earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, but
rather that you may prophesy. [14:2]For he that speaks with a tongue
speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but in spirit
he speaks mysteries; [14:3]but he that prophesies speaks to men to
edification and exhortation and consolation. [14:4]He that speaks with
a tongue edifies himself; but he that prophesies edifies an assembly.
[14:5]I wish you all to speak with tongues, but rather that you should
prophesy; and he that prophesies is greater than he that speaks with
tongues, unless he interprets, that the assembly may receive
edification.

9 [14:6]But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what
shall I profit y