1. Hymn 122 If I Have Not Charity

2. Verse 1 Though I speak with tongues of men, though I speak as angels,

3. If I have not charity I am become as nothing.

4. I become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal;

5. With the gift of prophecy, still I am as nothing.

6. Verse 2 Though I know all mysteries, though I have all knowledge,

7. If I have not charity I am become as nothing.

8. Though I give all I possess, let my body burn;

9. If I have not charity, then I am as nothing.

10. Verse 3 Charity will suffer long, charity is kind,

11. Envies not nor vaunts itself, behaveth not unseemly,

12. Seeketh not to have her way, nor is easily angered;

13. If I have not charity, then I am as nothing.

14. Verse 4 Charity rejoiceth not in iniquity,

15. But rejoiceth in the truth; believes and bears all things;

16. Hopes all things; endures all things; never thinketh evil.

17. If I have not charity, then I am as nothing.

18. Last Verse Whether there be prophecies, whether there be knowledge,

19. These shall likewise pass away, but charity remaineth.

20. Faith and hope and charity, all of these abide;

21. But among the three of these, charity is greatest.