⁸ Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. ^9 (A)For we know in part and we prophesy in part. ¹⁰ But when that which is ^[a]perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

¹¹ When 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 childish things. ¹² For ^(B)now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then ^(C)face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

³ For ^(A)if anyone thinks himself to be something, when ^(B)he is nothing, he deceives himself.

⁴ he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,