1 Corinthians 13

World English Bible (WEB) • 13 verses

1If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

Related1 Timothy 1:5 · 1 Peter 4:8 · Galatians 5:22 · 1 Corinthians 13:8 · Galatians 5:6 · 1 Corinthians 13:2-3

2If 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.

Related1 John 4:8 · 1 Corinthians 13:3 · 1 John 4:20-21 · Matthew 17:20 · Matthew 21:21 · 1 Corinthians 16:22

3If 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.

RelatedJames 2:14-17 · John 15:13 · Matthew 23:5 · Matthew 6:1-4 · Matthew 7:22-23 · Galatians 5:26

4Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

Related1 Peter 4:8 · Ephesians 4:32 · Galatians 5:21-22 · Proverbs 10:12 · Colossians 3:12 · 1 John 4:11

5doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

Related1 Corinthians 10:24 · Philippians 2:3-5 · 1 John 3:16-17 · James 1:19 · Philippians 2:21 · Philippians 4:8

6doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

RelatedRomans 12:9 · 3 John 1:3-4 · 2 John 1:4 · Romans 1:32 · Hosea 4:8 · 2 Thessalonians 2:12

7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

Related1 Peter 4:8 · 1 Corinthians 13:4 · 1 Peter 2:24 · 2 Timothy 2:24 · Proverbs 10:12 · Galatians 6:2

8Love 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.

Related1 Corinthians 13:13 · 1 Corinthians 13:1-2 · Galatians 5:6 · 1 Corinthians 13:10 · Acts 2:4 · Hebrews 8:13

9For we know in part and we prophesy in part;

RelatedColossians 2:2-3 · Ephesians 3:18-19 · Psalms 139:6 · 1 Corinthians 2:9 · 1 Corinthians 8:2 · 1 Corinthians 13:12

10but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.

Related1 Corinthians 13:12 · Isaiah 60:19-20 · 2 Corinthians 5:7-8 · Isaiah 24:23 · Revelation 22:4-5 · Revelation 21:22-23

11When 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.

Related1 Corinthians 14:20 · 1 Corinthians 3:1-2 · Galatians 4:1 · Ecclesiastes 11:10

12For 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.

Related1 John 3:2 · 2 Corinthians 3:18 · 1 Corinthians 13:9-10 · Philippians 3:12 · Revelation 22:4 · Matthew 5:8

13But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

Related1 Corinthians 16:14 · Colossians 3:14 · 1 John 4:7-18 · 1 Corinthians 13:1-8 · Galatians 5:6 · Mark 12:29-31

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Translation: World English Bible (public domain) and the Tamil Old Version (BSI) — 1957.