- Verses 1-8: Adapted from 1st Corinthians 13:1-8
- Verse 8: Adapted from LDS Moroni 7:47 / RLDS Moroni 7:52
- Verse 9: Adapted from Matthew 22:37-39
- Verse 10: Adapted from Matthew 5:43-48 and LDS 3rd Nephi 12:38-43 / RLDS 3rd Nephi 5:84-89
- Verses 11-15: Adapted from 1st John 4:7-21
- Verse 16: Adapted from LDS 1st Nephi 11:21-23 / RLDS 1st Nephi 3:62-65
- Verse 17: Adapted from LDS Moroni 7:48 / RLDS Moroni 7:53
1. Though we speak with the tongues of men and of angels but have not love, we have become nothing more than a sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
2. And though we have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though we have all faith so that we could remove mountains, but have not love, we are nothing.
3. And though we bestow all of our goods to feed the poor, and though we give our bodies to be burned, but have not love, it profits us nothing.
4. Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;
5. Love does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;
6. Love does not rejoice in iniquity but rejoices in the truth;
7. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8. Love never fails; it endures forever, and whoso is found possessed of it at the last day, it shall be well with them.
9. Let us love God with all of our heart, with all of our soul, and with all of our mind, and let us love others as we love ourselves.
10. Let us love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us. In this way, we may become children of God, for God makes the sun rise on the wicked and the good and sends rain upon the just and the unjust.
11. Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.
12. Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
13. Everyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
14. If we love one another, God abides in us, and God’s love has been perfected in us.
15. There is no fear in love; perfect love casts out fear.
16. The Tree of Life is the love of God, which sheds itself abroad in human hearts; it is the most desirable above all things and the most joyous to the soul.
17. Therefore, let us pray with all the energy of heart that we may be filled with this love, that we may become the children of God; that when He appears, we shall be like Him; that we may be purified even as He is pure.