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Taken from the Perseus edition of the Koine, for convenience, and translated more literally than poetically:
(1) If I speak with the languages of humans and of angels, but I do not have love, I have become the noise of copper or I was shouting as a cymbal. (2) And if I have the gift of prophecy and I know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to move mountains, but I do not have love, I am nothing. (3) And if I give all my possessions as food [for the poor], and if I give up my body, so that I may boast, but I do not have love, I get no profit.
(4) Love perseveres, is merciful; Love does not compete against [others], does not boast, does not puff itself up, (5) does not disgrace itself, doesn't seek its own things, does not provoke [others], does not take evil into account, (6) does not rejoice at injustice, but rejoices with the truth; (7) it endures everything, has faith in everything, hopes for everything, abides everything. (8) Love never falls down. And as for gifts of prophecy, they will cease; and languages, they will stop; and knowledge, it will cease.
(9) For we know partially, and we interpret partially; (10) but when the end comes, the "partially" will cease. (11) When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child; when I had become a man, I ceased childish things. (12) For right now we see in riddles through a mirror, but then we will see face to face; and right now I know partially, but then I will understand just as I was also understood.
(13) And at this moment faith, hope, and love remain: these three things, but love is the greatest of them.
(1) If I speak with the languages of humans and of angels, but I do not have love, I have become the noise of copper or I was shouting as a cymbal. (2) And if I have the gift of prophecy and I know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to move mountains, but I do not have love, I am nothing. (3) And if I give all my possessions as food [for the poor], and if I give up my body, so that I may boast, but I do not have love, I get no profit.
(4) Love perseveres, is merciful; Love does not compete against [others], does not boast, does not puff itself up, (5) does not disgrace itself, doesn't seek its own things, does not provoke [others], does not take evil into account, (6) does not rejoice at injustice, but rejoices with the truth; (7) it endures everything, has faith in everything, hopes for everything, abides everything. (8) Love never falls down. And as for gifts of prophecy, they will cease; and languages, they will stop; and knowledge, it will cease.
(9) For we know partially, and we interpret partially; (10) but when the end comes, the "partially" will cease. (11) When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child; when I had become a man, I ceased childish things. (12) For right now we see in riddles through a mirror, but then we will see face to face; and right now I know partially, but then I will understand just as I was also understood.
(13) And at this moment faith, hope, and love remain: these three things, but love is the greatest of them.