13 If I speak in the tongues^[a](A) of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

¹¹ When 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^(A) behind me. ¹² For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror;^(B) then we shall see face to face.^(C) Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.^(D)

¹³ And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.^(E) But the greatest of these is love.^(F)

⁸ Love never fails. But where there are prophecies,^(A) they will cease; where there are tongues,^(B) they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹ For we know in part^(C) and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰ but when completeness comes,^(D) what is in part disappears.