1 Corinthians 13 - The Scriptures 2009 The Scriptures 2009
1 Corinthians 13

¹ If I speak with the tongues of men and of messengers, but do not have love, I have become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

² And if I have prophecy, and know all secrets and all knowledge, and if I have all belief, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am none at all.

³ And if I give out all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but do not have love, I am not profited at all.

⁴ Love is patient, is kind, love does not envy, love does not boast, is not puffed up,

⁵ does not behave indecently, does not seek its own, is not provoked, reckons not the evil,

⁶ does not rejoice over the unrighteousness, but rejoices in the truth,

⁷ it covers all, believes all, expects all, endures all.

⁸ Love never fails. And whether there be prophecies, they shall be inactive; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be inactive.

⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part.

¹⁰ But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part shall be inactive.

¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child. But when I became a man, I did away with childish matters.

¹² For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know, as I also have been known.

¹³ And now belief, expectation, and love remain - these three. But the greatest of these is love.