佚名/Anonymous
If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I thought like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
如果我会世人及天使的言语，却没有爱，那我只会是聒噪的锣或钹；如果我能预知未来，通晓各种奥妙及学问，并虔诚于所有的信仰，使我能够移山倒海，却没有爱，那我将微不足道；如果我捐赠了所有的财富，并舍己为人，会感到自豪，但没有爱，我就一无所获。
爱是忍耐；爱是仁慈；爱不是嫉妒，不是炫耀，不是狂妄，也不是粗暴；它不会一味固执己见，焦躁恼恨；它憎恶谬论，追求真理，包容一切，相信一切，希冀一切，忍耐一切。
爱永无止境。而先知先觉，终将虚无；千言万语，必会消亡；学问认知，终会停滞。我们知道的只是一部分，预知也有限。当所有的无限排山倒海而来时，有限就会终结。儿时用孩童的思维来看问题，长大就用成人的眼光看事情。不久后，一切都不再模糊不清。此时我只知部分；以后会明白所有。信仰、希望和永恒的爱，三者之中，爱是最伟大的。