Read 1 Corinthians 13

World English Bible · 13 verses

1. ¹ If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
2. ² 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 don’t have love, I am nothing.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
3. ³ If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
4. ⁴ Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
5. ⁵ doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
6. ⁶ doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
7. ⁷ bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
8. ⁸ Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
9. ⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
10. ¹⁰ but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
11. ¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
12. 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 was also fully known.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
13. ¹³ But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

Scripture: World English Bible, public domain, eBible.org