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.
就算我能說萬人的方言和天使的話語，但如果沒有愛，我不過就如鳴鑼一般;就算我有預知未來的能力，就算我精通各種知識和奧秘，就算我有堅定的信念，但如果沒有愛，我就什么都算不上;就算我拿所有的財物周濟窮人，就算我能做出舍己為人的壯舉，但如果沒有愛，我仍將一無所有。
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.
愛是一種忍耐，愛是一種友善;愛不是嫉妒，不是自大，不是魯莽，不是固執己見，不是輕易發怒。愛意味著憎惡不義，贊賞真理;愛意味著包容一切，相信一切，對生活充滿希望，并能忍受生活中的一切。
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 and adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in 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.
愛是一種忍耐，愛是一種友善;愛不是嫉妒，不是自大，不是魯莽，不是固執己見，不是輕易發怒。愛意味著憎惡不義，贊賞真理;愛意味著包容一切，相信一切，對生活充滿希望，并能忍受生活中的一切。
愛是永無止境的，但又是有盡頭的;就像知識一樣，必將歸于烏有。我們現在搜掌握的知識很有限，當我們掌握了完整的知識時，有限的知識必將歸于烏有。當我還是一個孩子的時候，我像孩子一樣說話，像孩子一樣思考問題，像孩子一樣推理;但我一旦成年，就不再像孩子一樣了。現階段，我們很多時候好像是從鏡子里觀看事物，對很多事物都看不清，但有朝一日我們會直面這些事物。現階段，我知道的東西很有限，但有朝一日我會懂得一切。
如今，常存在人們心中的東西有三樣：信念、希望和愛，而其中愛是最重要的!