He answered, ‘Because the secrets of the kingdom of heaven have been given for you to know, but it has not been given to them.
1 Corinthians 13:2 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised If I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And if I have prophetic powers (the gift of interpreting the divine will and purpose), and understand all the secret truths and mysteries and possess all knowledge, and if I have [sufficient] faith so that I can remove mountains, but have not love (God's love in me) I am nothing (a useless nobody). American Standard Version (1901) And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. Common English Bible If I have the gift of prophecy and I know all the mysteries and everything else, and if I have such complete faith that I can move mountains but I don’t have love, I’m nothing. Catholic Public Domain Version And if I have prophecy, and learn every mystery, and obtain all knowledge, and possess all faith, so that I could move mountains, yet not have charity, then I am nothing. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries, and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. |
He answered, ‘Because the secrets of the kingdom of heaven have been given for you to know, but it has not been given to them.
‘Because of your little faith,’ he told them. ‘For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, “Move from here to there,” and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.’ ,
Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, he went up to it and found nothing on it except leaves. And he said to it, ‘May no fruit ever come from you again! ’ At once the fig tree withered.
Jesus answered them, ‘Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you tell this mountain, “Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,” it will be done.
Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen, a close friend of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
I don’t want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you will not be conceited: A partial hardening has come upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
My brothers and sisters, I myself am convinced about you that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.
Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the proclamation about Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept silent for long ages
Every man who prays or prophesies with something on his head dishonours his head.
And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, next miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, leading, various kinds of tongues.
If I speak human or angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
And if I give away all my possessions, and if I give over my body in order to boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
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.
So then, my brothers and sisters, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues.
The person who speaks in a tongue builds himself up, but the one who prophesies builds up the church.
Listen, I am telling you a mystery: We shall not all fall asleep, but we shall all be changed,
A person should think of us in this way: as servants of Christ and managers of the mysteries of God.
Circumcision does not matter and uncircumcision does not matter. Keeping God’s commands is what matters.
About eating food sacrificed to idols, then, we know that ‘an idol is nothing in the world’, and that ‘there is no God but one’.
I have been a fool; you forced it on me. You ought to have commended me, since I am not in any way inferior to those ‘super-apostles’, even though I am nothing.
I say, then, walk by the Spirit and you will certainly not carry out the desire of the flesh.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
For if anyone considers himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
By reading this you are able to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ.
Pray also for me, that the message may be given to me when I open my mouth to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel.
the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints.
And most certainly, the mystery of godliness is great: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.