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1 Corinthians 13

The Greatest Gift

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

Love Is the Greatest

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

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, but have not love, I am nothing.

If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing.

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body [a]to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it;a but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.

Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not [b]puffed up;

Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud

does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, [c]thinks no evil;

or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.

does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.

Prophecy and speaking in unknown languagesb and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever!

For we know in part and we prophesy in part.

Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture!

But when that which is [d]perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

But when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will become useless.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things.

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

Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.c All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Three things will last forever — faith, hope, and love — and the greatest of these is love.

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