Love is the most important thing
13:1-3
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.
If I speak well, prophesy, understand mysteries, and know everything, I'm nothing if I don't have love.
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 profiteth me nothing.
If I give everything to the poor, and give my body to be burned, it's not worth anything unless I have love.
To be read at all weddings
4Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Love is patient, kind, doesn't envy or show off, and isn't proud.
5Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
It behaves well and isn't selfish. It doesn't provoke or have bad thoughts.
6Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
It doesn't rejoice in fighting but rejoices in the truth.
7Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Love believes everything. [1]
8Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
And it never fails. But prophecies fail, speech stops, and knowledge goes away. [2]
Put away childless things
13:9-13
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 spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
When I became a man, I put away childish things. [3]
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.
Now we see through a glass, darkly.
13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
Love is greater than faith or hope. [4]