1. Korintherbrief - Kapitel 13 Kap. 13 - 1. Korintherbrief

^[1]  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.

^[2]  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.

^[3]  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 profits me nothing.

^[4]  Charity suffers long, and is kind; charity envies not; charity brags not itself, is not puffed up,

^[5]  Does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil;

^[6]  Rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

^[7]  Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

^[8]  Charity never fails: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

^[9]  For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

^[10]  But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

^[11]  When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

^[12]  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]  And now stays faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.