1 Corinthians 13New King James Version
The Greatest Gift
13 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.2 And though I havethe gift of(A)prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith,(B)so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.3 And(C)though I bestow all my goods to feedthe poor,and though I give my body[a]to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
4 (D)Love suffers longandis(E)kind; love(F)does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not[b]puffed up;5 does not behave rudely,(G)does not seek its own, is not provoked,[c]thinks no evil;6 (H)does not rejoice in iniquity, but(I)rejoices in the truth;7 (J)bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But whetherthere areprophecies, they will fail; whetherthere aretongues, they will cease; whetherthere isknowledge, it will vanish away.9 (K)For we know in part and we prophesy in part.10 But when that which is[d]perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
11 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.12 For(L)now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then(M)face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of theseislove.
Footnotes
- 1 Corinthians 13:3NUso I may boast
- 1 Corinthians 13:4arrogant
- 1 Corinthians 13:5keeps no accounts of evil
- 1 Corinthians 13:10complete
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