³⁰ Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’^{[a](A) 31} The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’^[b](B) There is no commandment greater than these.”

¹² My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.^(A)

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. ² If I have the gift of prophecy^(B) and can fathom all mysteries^(C) and all knowledge,^(D) and if I have a faith^(E) that can move mountains,^(F) but do not have love, I am nothing. ³ If I give all I possess to the poor^(G) and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,^[b](H) but do not have love, I gain nothing.

⁴ Love is patient,^(I) love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.^{(J) 5} It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking,^(K) it is not easily angered,^(L) it keeps no record of wrongs.^{(M) 6} Love does not delight in evil^(N) but rejoices with the truth.^{(O) 7} It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.^(P)

⁸ Love never fails. But where there are prophecies,^(Q) they will cease; where there are tongues,^(R) they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹ For we know in part^(S) and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰ but when completeness comes,^(T) 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^(U) behind me. ¹² For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror;^(V) then we shall see face to face.^(W) Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.^(X)

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

¹⁶ But if they will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’^{[a](A) 17} If they still refuse to listen, tell it to the church;^(B) and if they refuse to listen even to the church, treat them as you would a pagan or a tax collector.^(C)

¹⁸ “Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be^[b] bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be^[c] loosed in heaven.^(D)

¹⁹ “Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them^(E) by my Father in heaven. ²⁰ For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”^(F)