Chapter 13

ean taiV glwssaiV twn anqrwpwn lalw kai twn aggelwn agaphn de mh ecw gegona calkoV hcwn h kumbalon alalazon
13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

kai ean ecw profhteian kai eidw ta musthria panta kai pasan thn gnwsin kai ean ecw pasan thn pistin wste orh meqistanein agaphn de mh ecw ouqen eimi
13:2 And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

kai ean ywmisw panta ta uparconta mou kai ean paradw to swma mou ina kauqhswmai agaphn de mh ecw ouden wfeloumai
13:3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

h agaph makroqumei crhsteuetai h agaph ou zhloi h agaph ou perpereuetai ou fusioutai
13:4 Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

ouk aschmonei ou zhtei ta eauthV ou paroxunetai ou logizetai to kakon
13:5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

ou cairei epi th adikia sugcairei de th alhqeia
13:6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

panta stegei panta pisteuei panta elpizei panta upomenei
13:7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

h agaph oudepote ekpiptei eite de profhteiai katarghqhsontai eite glwssai pausontai eite gnwsiV katarghqhsetai
13:8 Charity never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall fail; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall vanish away.

ek merouV gar ginwskomen kai ek merouV profhteuomen
13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

otan de elqh to teleion tote to ek merouV katarghqhsetai
13:10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

ote hmhn nhpioV wV nhpioV elaloun wV nhpioV efronoun wV nhpioV elogizomhn ote de gegona anhr kathrghka ta tou nhpiou
13:11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

blepomen gar arti di esoptrou en ainigmati tote de proswpon proV proswpon arti ginwskw ek merouV tote de epignwsomai kaqwV kai epegnwsqhn
13:12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

nuni de menei pistiV elpiV agaph ta tria tauta meizwn de toutwn h agaph
13:13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these [is] charity.