Praise him with clanging cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals!
1 Corinthians 13:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 If I speak in the tongues of humans and of angels but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition IF I [can] speak in the tongues of men and [even] of angels, but have not love (that reasoning, intentional, spiritual devotion such as is inspired by God's love for and in us), I am only a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. American Standard Version (1901) If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. Common English Bible If I speak in tongues of human beings and of angels but I don’t have love, I’m a clanging gong or a clashing cymbal. Catholic Public Domain Version If I were to speak in the language of men, or of Angels, yet not have charity, I would be like a clanging bell or a crashing cymbal. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version IF I speak with the tongues of men, and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. |
Praise him with clanging cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals!
Then he will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’
And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
If your brother or sister is distressed by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not let what you eat cause the ruin of one for whom Christ died.
to another the working of powerful deeds, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
And if the ear would say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.
To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit,
Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end.
For those who speak in a tongue do not speak to other people but to God, for no one understands them, since they are speaking mysteries in the Spirit.
Those who speak in a tongue build up themselves, but those who prophesy build up the church.
Now I would like all of you to speak in tongues but even more to prophesy. One who prophesies is greater than one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up.
Now concerning food sacrificed to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
was caught up into paradise and heard things that are not to be told, that no mortal is permitted to repeat.
By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness,
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything; the only thing that counts is faith working through love.
But the aim of such instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith.
Above all, maintain constant love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins.
For they speak bombastic nonsense, and with debased desires of the flesh they entice people who have just escaped from those who live in error.
And I heard a voice from heaven like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder; the voice I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps,