1 Corintios 13

1Aunque yo hable la lengua de los hombres y de los ángeles, si no tengo amor, soy como bronce que suena o címbalo que retiñe.

2Y aunque tenga ( don de) profecía, y sepa todos los misterios, y toda la ciencia, y tenga toda la fe en forma que traslade montañas, si no tengo amor, nada soy.

3Y si repartiese mi hacienda toda, y si entregase mi cuerpo para ser quemado, mas no tengo caridad, nada me aprovecha.

4El amor es paciente; el amor es benigno, sin envidia; el amor no es jactancioso, no se engríe;

5no hace nada que no sea conveniente, no busca lo suyo, no se irrita, no piensa mal;

6no se regocija en la injusticia, antes se regocija con la verdad;

7todo lo sobrelleva, todo lo cree, todo lo espera, todo lo soporta.

8El amor nunca se acaba; en cambio, las profecías terminarán, las lenguas cesarán, la ciencia tendrá su fin.

9Porque ( solo) en parte conocemos, y en parte profetizamos;

10mas cuando llegue lo perfecto, entonces lo parcial se acabará.

11Cuando yo era niño, hablaba como niño, pensaba como niño, razonaba como niño; mas cuando llegué a ser hombre, me deshice de las cosas de niño.

12Porque ahora miramos en un enigma, a través de un espejo; mas entonces veremos cara a cara. Ahora conozco en parte, entonces conoceré plenamente de la manera en que también fui conocido.

13Al presente permanecen la fe, la esperanza y la caridad, estas tres; mas la mayor de ellas es la caridad.

1Si linguis hominum loquar, et angelorum, caritatem autem non habeam, factus sum velut æs sonans, aut cymbalum tinniens.

2Et si habuero prophetiam, et noverim mysteria omnia, et omnem scientiam: et si habuero omnem fidem ita ut montes transferam, caritatem autem non habuero, nihil sum.

3Et si distribuero in cibos pauperum omnes facultates meas, et si tradidero corpus meum ita ut ardeam, caritatem autem non habuero, nihil mihi prodest.

4Caritas patiens est, benigna est. Caritas non æmulatur, non agit perperam, non inflatur,

5non est ambitiosa, non quærit quæ sua sunt, non irritatur, non cogitat malum,

6non gaudet super iniquitate, congaudet autem veritati:

7omnia suffert, omnia credit, omnia sperat, omnia sustinet.

8Caritas numquam excidit: sive prophetiæ evacuabuntur, sive linguæ cessabunt, sive scientia destruetur.

9Ex parte enim cognoscimus, et ex parte prophetamus.

10Cum autem venerit quod perfectum est, evacuabitur quod ex parte est.

11Cum essem parvulus, loquebar ut parvulus, sapiebam ut parvulus, cogitabam ut parvulus. Quando autem factus sum vir, evacuavi quæ erant parvuli.

12Videmus nunc per speculum in ænigmate: tunc autem facie ad faciem. Nunc cognosco ex parte: tunc autem cognoscam sicut et cognitus sum.

13Nunc autem manent fides, spes, caritas, tria hæc: major autem horum est caritas.

1If I speak with the tongues of men, and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

2And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries, and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

3And if I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if I should deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

4Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely; is not puffed up;

5Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil;

6Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth with the truth;

7Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

8Charity never falleth away: whether prophecies shall be made void, or tongues shall cease, or knowledge shall be destroyed.

9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

10But when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.

11When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But, when I became a man, I put away the things of a child.

12We see now through a glass in a dark manner; but then face to face. Now I know I part; but then I shall know even as I am known.

13And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity.