1 Corinthians 13 - Y'all Version Bible

Love Defined

¹ If I speak with the tongues of humans or angels, but don’t have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

² If I have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith that can move mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

³ If I give away all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body that I may boast, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

⁴ Love is patient. Love is kind and not envious. Love doesn’t brag, and it isn’t arrogant.

⁵ It doesn’t behave inappropriately, it isn’t self-seeking, it isn’t easily provoked, it doesn’t count up wrongs.

⁶ It isn’t glad about injustice, but rejoices with the truth.

⁷ It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

⁸ Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be ended. Where there are tongues, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be ended.

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

¹⁰ but when completeness comes, then the partial come to an end.

¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I thought like a child. Now that I have become an adult, I have ended childish ways.

¹² For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I am also fully known.

¹³ But now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.