1 Corinthians 13

1If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, # 1Co 6:3; 11:10; 2Co 12:4 and have not love, I have become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, # Mt 21:21 and have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing.

4Love suffers long and is kind; # Col 3:12 love envies not; love flaunts not itself and is not puffed up, 5does not behave itself improperly, seeks not its own, # 1Co 10:24; Php 2:21 is not easily provoked, thinks no evil; 6rejoices not in iniquity, # Ro 1:32 but rejoices in the truth; # 2Jn 4 7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. # 1Co 13:4

8Love never fails. But if there are prophecies, they shall fail; if there are tongues, they shall cease; and if there is knowledge, it shall vanish. 9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. # 1Co 8:2; 13:12 10But when that which is perfect comes, then that which is imperfect shall pass away. 11When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, and I thought as a child. But when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12For now we see as through a glass, dimly, but then, face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know, even as I also am known. # 2Co 5:7; 1Jn 3:2

13So now abide faith, hope, and love, these three. But the greatest of these is love. # 1Co 16:14; Gal 5:6

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1 Corinthians 13

Love

1What if I could speak

all languages of humans

and of angels?

If I did not love others,

I would be nothing more

than a noisy gong

or a clanging cymbal.

2What if I could prophesy#Mt 17.20; 21.21; Mk 11.23.

and understand all secrets

and all knowledge?

And what if I had faith

that moved mountains?

I would be nothing,

unless I loved others.

3What if I gave away all

that I owned

and let myself

be burnt alive?#13.3 and let myself be burnt alive: Some manuscripts have “so that I could boast.”

I would gain nothing,

unless I loved others.

4Love is kind and patient,

never jealous, boastful,

proud, or 5rude.

Love isn't selfish

or quick-tempered.

It doesn't keep a record

of wrongs that others do.

6Love rejoices in the truth,

but not in evil.

7Love is always supportive,

loyal, hopeful,

and trusting.

8Love never fails!

Everyone who prophesies

will stop,

and unknown languages

will no longer

be spoken.

All that we know

will be forgotten.

9We don't know everything,

and our prophecies

are not complete.

10But what is perfect

will some day appear,

and what isn't perfect

will then disappear.

11When we were children,

we thought and reasoned

as children do.

But when we grew up,

we stopped our childish ways.

12Now all we can see of God

is like a cloudy picture

in a mirror.

Later we will see him

face to face.

We don't know everything,

but then we will,

just as God completely

understands us.

13For now there are faith,

hope, and love.

But of these three,

the greatest is love.

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