13:1 我若能说万人的方言，并天使的话语却没有爱，我就成了呜的锣，响的钹一般。

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.

 

13:2 我若有先知讲道之能，也明白各样的奥秘，各样的知识。而且有全备的信，叫我能够移山，却没有爱，我就算不得什么。

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.

 

13:3 我若将所有的周济穷人，又舍己身叫人焚烧，却没有爱，仍然与我无益。

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.

 

13:4 爱是恒久忍耐，又有恩慈。爱是不嫉妒。爱是不自夸。不张狂。

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

 

13:5 不作害羞的事。不求自己的益处。不轻易发怒。不计算人的恶。

Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

 

13:6 不喜欢不义。只喜欢真理。

Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

 

13:7 凡事包容。凡事相信。凡事盼望。凡事忍耐。

Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

 

13:8 爱是永不止息。先知讲道之能，终必归于无有。说方言之能，终必停止，知识也终必归于无有。

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.

 

13:9 我们现在所知道的有限，先知所讲的也有限。

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

 

13:10 等那完全的来到，这有限的必归于无有了。

But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

 

13:11 我作孩子的时候，话语像孩子，心思像孩子，意念像孩子。既成了人，就把孩子的事丢弃了。

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.

 

13:12 我们如今彷佛对着镜子观看，馍糊不清。（馍糊不清原文作如同谜）到那时，到那时，就要面对面了。我如今所知道的有限。到那时就全知道，如同主知道我一样。

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.

 

13:13 如今常存的有信，有望，有爱，这三样，其中最大的是爱。

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.