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1 Corinthians 13

Berean Standard Bible

Love

1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body,a but have not love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. 6 Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.

11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways. 12 Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

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

Notes

  1. a 13:3 SBL, NE, BYZ, and TR surrender my body to be burned

Greek words in 1 Corinthians 13

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Cross references

  1. 13:1 1 Timothy 1:5; 1 Peter 4:8; Galatians 5:22
  2. 13:2 1 John 4:8; 1 Corinthians 13:3; 1 John 4:20–21
  3. 13:3 James 2:14–17; John 15:13; Matthew 23:5
  4. 13:4 1 Peter 4:8; Ephesians 4:32; Galatians 5:21–22
  5. 13:5 1 Corinthians 10:24; Philippians 2:3–5; 1 John 3:16–17
  6. 13:6 Romans 12:9; 3 John 1:3–4; 2 John 1:4
  7. 13:7 1 Peter 4:8; 1 Corinthians 13:4; 1 Peter 2:24
  8. 13:8 1 Corinthians 13:13; 1 Corinthians 13:1–2; Galatians 5:6
  9. 13:9 Colossians 2:2–3; Ephesians 3:18–19; Psalm 139:6
  10. 13:10 Isaiah 60:19–20; 1 Corinthians 13:12; 2 Corinthians 5:7–8
  11. 13:11 1 Corinthians 14:20; 1 Corinthians 3:1–2; Galatians 4:1
  12. 13:12 1 John 3:2; 2 Corinthians 3:18; 1 Corinthians 13:9–10
  13. 13:13 1 Corinthians 16:14; Colossians 3:14; 1 John 4:7–18

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