1 Corinthians 13
13
A More Excellent Way
1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have no love, I have become a sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have the gift of prophecy* and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to displace mountains, yet do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give away all my possessions, and if I give over my body so that I may boast,* but have no love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind, love is not jealous;* it does not boast, it is not inflated with arrogance, 5 it does not act improperly; it does not seek its own, it is not provoked, it does not take an inventory of wrongs; 6 it does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 it bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But if there are prophecies, they will be done away with. If there are tongues, they will cease. If there is knowledge, it will be done away with. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away with. 11 When I was a child, I was speaking like a child, I was thinking like a child, I was reasoning like a child. When I became a man, I did away with childish things. 12 For now we see through a mirror obscurely, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I also have been fully known. 13 And now these three things abide: faith, hope, love. But the greatest* of these is love.
Notes
2 Or prophecy
3 Some ancient manuscripts read may be burned
4 Some ancient manuscripts read it is not jealous
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