¹信望爱中最大的是爱

¹If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;

²我若有先知讲道的恩赐，也明白各样的奥秘，各样的知识；并且有全备的信，叫我能够移山，却没有爱，我就算不得什么。

²and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

³我若把一切所有的分给人，又舍己身被人焚烧，却没有爱，对我仍然毫无益处。

³and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

⁴爱是恒久忍耐，又有恩慈。爱是不嫉妒，不自夸，不张狂；

⁴The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

⁵不作失礼的事，不求自己的益处，不轻易动怒，不计较人的过犯；

⁵doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,

⁶不喜欢不义，只喜欢真理。

⁶rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth;

⁷爱是凡事包容，凡事相信，凡事盼望，凡事忍耐。

⁷all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth.

⁸爱是永存不息的。先知的讲道终必过去，方言终必停止，知识终必消失。

⁸The love doth never fail; and whether [there be] prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

⁹因为我们现在所知道的，只是一部分；所讲的道也只是一部分；

⁹for in part we know, and in part we prophecy;

¹⁰等那完全的来到，这部分的就要过去了。

¹⁰and when that which is perfect may come, then that which [is] in part shall become useless.

¹¹我作孩子的时候，说话像孩子，心思像孩子，想法像孩子，既然长大了，就把孩子的事都丢弃了。

¹¹When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;

¹²我们现在是对着镜子观看，模糊不清，到那时就要面对面了。我现在所知道的只是一部分，到那时就完全知道了，好像主完全知道我一样。

¹²for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known;

¹³现在常存的有信、望、爱这三样，其中最大的是爱。

¹³and now there doth remain faith, hope, love — these three; and the greatest of these [is] love.