The Koine Bible

If I speak with the tongues of humans and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a resounding bronze or a clanging cymbal.

And if I have prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

And if I give away all my possessions, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind, love does not envy, love does not boast, it is not proud,

does not behave improperly, does not seek its own, is not easily angered, does not keep a record of wrongs,

It does not rejoice in injustice, but rejoices with the truth.

It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always endures.

Love never fails. But if there are prophecies, they will cease; if there are tongues, they will stop; if there is knowledge, it will be done away.

For we know in part and we prophesy in part.

But when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I put away the things of a child.

For now we see through a mirror in a dim way, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will fully know just as I have been fully known.

Now faith, hope, and love remain—these three; but the greatest of these is love.