13:1  si linguis hominum loquar et           1.  Though I speak with the tongues of
angelorum caritatem autem non habeam         men and of angels, and have not
factus sum velut aes sonans aut              charity, I am become as sounding brass,
cymbalum tinniens                            or a tinkling cymbal.

13:2  et si habuero prophetiam et            2.  And though I have the gift of
noverim mysteria omnia et omnem              prophecy, and understand all mysteries,
scientiam et habuero omnem fidem ita ut      and all knowledge; and though I have
montes transferam caritatem autem non        all faith, so that I could remove
habuero nihil sum                            mountains, and have not charity, I am
                                             nothing.

13:3  et si distribuero in cibos             3.  And though I bestow all my goods to
pauperum omnes facultates meas et si         feed the poor, and though I give my
tradidero corpus meum ut ardeam              body to be burned, and have not
caritatem autem non habuero nihil mihi       charity, it profiteth me nothing.
prodest

13:4  caritas patiens est benigna est        4.  Charity suffereth long, and is
caritas non aemulatur non agit perperam      kind; charity envieth not; charity
non inflatur                                 vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

13:5  non est ambitiosa non quaerit          5.  Doth not behave itself unseemly,
quae sua sunt non inritatur non cogitat      seeketh not her own, is not easily
malum                                        provoked, thinketh no evil;

13:6  non gaudet super iniquitatem           6.  Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but
congaudet autem veritati                     rejoiceth in the truth;

13:7  omnia suffert omnia credit omnia       7.  Beareth all things, believeth all
sperat omnia sustinet                        things, hopeth all things, endureth all
                                             things.

13:8  caritas numquam excidit sive           8.  Charity never faileth: but whether
prophetiae evacuabuntur sive linguae         there be prophecies, they shall fail;
cessabunt sive scientia destruetur           whether there be tongues, they shall
                                             cease; whether there be knowledge, it
                                             shall vanish away.

13:9  ex parte enim cognoscimus et ex        9.  For we know in part, and we
parte prophetamus                            prophesy in part.

13:10  cum autem venerit quod perfectum      10.  But when that which is perfect is
est evacuabitur quod ex parte est            come, then that which is in part shall
                                             be done away.

13:11  cum essem parvulus loquebar ut        11.  When I was a child, I spake as a
parvulus sapiebam ut parvulus cogitabam      child, I understood as a child, I
ut parvulus quando factus sum vir            thought as a child: but when I became a
evacuavi quae erant parvuli                  man, I put away childish things.

13:12  videmus nunc per speculum in          12.  For now we see through a glass,
enigmate tunc autem facie ad faciem          darkly; but then face to face: now I
nunc cognosco ex parte tunc autem            know in part; but then shall I know
cognoscam sicut et cognitus sum              even as also I am known.

13:13  nunc autem manet fides spes           13.  And now abideth faith, hope,
caritas tria haec maior autem his est        charity, these three; but the greatest
caritas                                      of these is charity.