^{4 Ref} Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride;

^{5 Ref} Love's ways are ever fair, it takes no thought for itself; it is not quickly made angry, it takes no account of evil;

^{6 Ref} It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but has joy in what is true;

^{7 Ref} Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things.

^{8 Ref} Though the prophet's word may come to an end, tongues come to nothing, and knowledge have no more value, love has no end.

^{4 Ref} The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

^{5 Ref} doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,

^{6 Ref} rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth;

^{7 Ref} all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth.

^{8 Ref} The love doth never fail; and whether `there be' prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

^{4 Ref} Love suffereth long, `and' is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

^{5 Ref} doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;

^{6 Ref} rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;

^{7 Ref} beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

^{8 Ref} Love never faileth: but whether `there be' prophecies, they shall be done away; whether `there be' tongues, they shall cease; whether `there be' knowledge, it shall be done away.