1 Corinthians 13:8-14:5

New International Version

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. 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^(E) behind me. ¹² For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror;^(F) then we shall see face to face.^(G) Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.^(H)

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

Intelligibility in Worship

14 Follow the way of love^(K) and eagerly desire^(L) gifts of the Spirit,^(M) especially prophecy.^{(N) 2} For anyone who speaks in a tongue^[a](O) does not speak to people but to God. Indeed, no one understands them;^(P) they utter mysteries^(Q) by the Spirit. ³ But the one who prophesies speaks to people for their strengthening,^(R) encouraging^(S) and comfort. ⁴ Anyone who speaks in a tongue^(T) edifies^(U) themselves, but the one who prophesies^(V) edifies the church. ⁵ I would like every one of you to speak in tongues,^[b] but I would rather have you prophesy.^(W) The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues,^[c] unless someone interprets, so that the church may be edified.^(X)