歌林多前书

爱是永不止息，先知讲道之能，终必归于无有；说方言之能，终必停止；知识也终必归于无有。
Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing.  

 

我若能说万人的方言、并天使的话语，却没有爱，我就成了鸣的锣、响的钹一般。
If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal.

 

我若有先知讲道之能、也明白各样的奥秘、各样的知识，而且有全备的信，叫我能彀移山，却没有爱，我就算不得甚么。

And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.

 

我若将所有的赒济穷人，又舍己身叫人焚烧，却没有爱，仍然与我无益。

If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.

 

爱是恒久忍耐、又有恩慈，爱是不嫉妒，爱是不自夸、不张狂；

Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated,

 

不作害羞的事、不求自己的益处、不轻易发怒、不计算人的恶；

it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,

 

不喜欢不义、只喜欢真理；

it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.

 

凡事包容、凡事相信、凡事盼望、凡事忍耐。

It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

 

爱是永不止息，先知讲道之能，终必归于无有；说方言之能，终必停止；知识也终必归于无有。

Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing.

 

我们现在所知道的有限，先知所讲的也有限；

For we know partially and we prophesy partially,

 

等那完全的来到，这有限的必归于无有了。

but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.

 

我作孩子的时候、话语像孩子、心思像孩子、意念像孩子；既成了人，就把孩子的事丢弃了。

When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things.

 

我们如今彷佛对着镜子观看，模糊不清（原文作「如同猜谜」），到那时就要面对面了。我如今所知道的有限，到那时就全知道，如同主知道我一样。

At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known.

 

如今常存的有信、有望、有爱，这三样，其中最大的是爱。

So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.