Though I speake with the tongues of men and of Angels, and haue not loue, I am as soundyng brasse, or as a tincklyng Cimball:

And though I coulde prophesie, and vnderstoode all secretes, and all knowledge: Yea, if I had all fayth, so that I coulde moue mountaynes out of their places, and haue not loue, I were nothyng.

And though I bestowe all my goodes to feede the poore, and though I geue my body that I burned, and haue not loue, it profiteth me nothyng.

Loue suffreth long, and is curteous: Loue enuieth not, loue doth not frowardely, swelleth not,

Dealeth not dishonestlie, seeketh not her owne, is not prouoked to anger, thynketh none euyll,

Reioyceth not in iniquitie: bur reioyceth in the trueth:

Suffreth all thynges, beleueth all thynges, hopeth all thynges, endureth all thynges.

Though ye prophesiynges fayle, other tongues ceasse, or knowledge vanishe away, yet loue falleth neuer away.

For our knowledge is vnperfect, and our prophesiyng is vnperfect:

But when that which is perfect, is come, then that which is vnperfect shalbe done away.

When I was a chylde, I spake as a childe, I vnderstode as a childe, I imagined as a chylde: But assoone as I was a man, I put away chyldishnesse.

Nowe we see in a glasse, euen in a darke speakyng: but then shall we see face to face. Nowe I knowe vnperfectly: but then shall I knowe euen as I am knowen.

Nowe abydeth fayth, hope, and loue, these three, but the chiefe of these is loue.