m c

Ένα από τα πιο αξιόλογα κείμενα της Αγίας Γραφής.

Απόσπασμα από την Α΄ επιστολή του αποστόλου Παύλου προς τους Κορινθίους.

Η μουσική είναι από την ταινία του Κισλόφσκι "Τα τρία χρώματα: μπλε".

Απόδοση του ύμνου στα αγγλικά:

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels,

but have not love,

I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

And if I have prophetic powers,

and understand all mysteries and all knowledge,

and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains,

but have not love,

I am nothing.

If I give away all I have,

and if I deliver my body to be burned,

but have not love,

I gain nothing.

Love is patient and kind;

love is not jealous or boastful;

it is not arrogant or rude.

Love does not insist on its own way;

it is not irritable or resentful;

it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.

Love bears all things,

believes all things,

hopes all things,

endures all things.

Love never ends;

as for prophecies, they will pass away;

as for tongues, they will cease;

as