8 Love is eternal . There are inspired messages , but they are temporary ;
there are gifts of speaking in strange tongues , but they will cease ; there is knowledge , but it will pass . 9 For our gifts of knowledge and of inspired messages are only partial ; 10 but when what is perfect comes , then what is partial will disappear .
11 When I was a child , my speech , feelings , and thinking were all those of a
child ; now that I am an adult , I have no more use for childish ways . 12 What we see now is like a dim image in a mirror ; then we shall see face-to-face . What I know now is only partial ; then it will be complete — as complete as God ' s knowledge of me .
13 Meanwhile these three remain : faith , hope , and love ; and the greatest of these is love .