我若能說萬人的方言，並天使的話語，卻沒有愛，我就成了鳴的鑼，響的鈸一般。
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
我若能說萬人的方言，並天使的話語，卻沒有愛，我就成了鳴的鑼，響的鈸一般。
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
我若有先知講道之能，也明白各樣的奧祕，各樣的知識，而且有全備的信，叫我能夠移山，卻沒有愛，我就算不得甚麼。
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 have not love, I am nothing.
我若將所有的賙濟窮人，又捨己身叫人焚燒，卻沒有愛，仍然與我無益。
If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
愛是恆久忍耐，又有恩慈；愛是不嫉妒；愛是不自誇，不張狂，
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
不做害羞的事，不求自己的益處，不輕易發怒，不計算人的惡，
or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
不喜歡不義，只喜歡真理；
it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
凡事包容，凡事相信，凡事盼望，凡事忍耐。
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
愛是永不止息。先知講道之能終必歸於無有；說方言之能終必停止；知識也終必歸於無有。
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
我們現在所知道的有限，先知所講的也有限，
For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
等那完全的來到，這有限的必歸於無有了。
but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
我作孩子的時候，話語像孩子，心思像孩子，意念像孩子，既成了人，就把孩子的事丟棄了。
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 gave up childish ways.
我們如今彷彿對著鏡子觀看，模糊不清〔「模糊不清」原文作「如同猜謎」〕，到那時就要面對面了。我如今所知道的有限，到那時就全知道，如同主知道我一樣。
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
如今常存的有信，有望，有愛這三樣，其中最大的是愛。
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.