The Healing Passages
I Corinthians 13
The Love Chapter
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love,
I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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 love, I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned,
and have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
4 Love suffereth long, and is kind;
love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things,
hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8 Love 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.
9 For we know in part, and we prophecy in
