1750 Challoner Revision of the Douay-Rheims (DR)

1 Corinthians 13

1 All gifts, 2, 3 how excellent soever, are nothing worth without charity. 4 The praises thereof, and 13 prelation before hope and faith.

 13:1 ¶ If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

 13:2 And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

 13:3 And if I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if I should deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

 13:4 Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely, is not puffed up,

 13:5 Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil:

 13:6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth with the truth:

 13:7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

 13:8 Charity never falleth away: whether prophecies shall be made void or tongues shall cease or knowledge shall be destroyed.

 13:9 For we know in part: and we prophesy in part.

 13:10 But when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.

 13:11 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 the things of a child.

 13:12 We see now through a glass in a dark manner: but then face to face. Now I know in part: but then I shall know even as I am known.

 13:13 And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity.