1 Corinthians 13 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

The Excellence of Love

1Co 13:1If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

1Co 13:2

1Co 13:2And 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 have not love, I am nothing.

1Co 13:3

1Co 13:3And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.

1Co 13:4

1Co 13:4Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

1Co 13:5

1Co 13:5doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;

1Co 13:6

1Co 13:6rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;

1Co 13:7

1Co 13:7beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

1Co 13:8

1Co 13:8Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall be done away.

1Co 13:9

1Co 13:9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;

1Co 13:10

1Co 13:10but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.

1Co 13:11

1Co 13:11When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.

1Co 13:12

1Co 13:12For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known.

1Co 13:13

1Co 13:13But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

1 Corinthians 13 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

The Excellence of Love

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