The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Corinthians 13
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.
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.
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.
4 Love is patient and is kind. Love
doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not
proud,
5 doesn’t behave itself inappropriately,
doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked,
takes no account of evil;
6 doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but
rejoices with the truth;
7 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 done away with.
Where there are various languages, they
will cease. Where there is knowledge, it
will be done away with.
9 For we know in part and we prophesy
in part;
10 but when that which is complete has
come, then that which is partial will be
done away with.
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.
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.
13 But now faith, hope, and love remain—
these three. The greatest of these is love.