Love is patient, love is kind
Language: English
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy or boast, it is not proud. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes and endures all things. Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels, If I have not love, I am as sounding brass, Or a tinkling cymbal. Though I have the gift of prophecy, understand all mysteries, Know all things, and though my faith could move mountains, If I have not love, I am nothing. Though I give away all I have, and my body to the flames If I have not love, I am nothing. Love does not fail, but prophecy shall cease, tongues shall be stilled and knowledge shall vanish away. For we see as in a glass darkly, but then face to face. When I was a child I spoke as a child I thought as a child I reasoned as a child, but now I am grown I put away childish things.
Authorship:
- by Bible or other Sacred Texts , St Paul, 1 Corinthians 13 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Gordon Kerry (b. 1961), "Love is patient, love is kind", 2005 [ children's chorus and instrumental ensemble ], from For those in peril on the sea, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2022-06-20
Line count: 18
Word count: 161