1 Corinthians 13 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

The Excellence of Love

If^G1437 I speak^G2980 with the tongues^G1100 of men^G444 and of angels^G32, but do not have^G2192 love^G26, I have become^G1096 a noisy^G2278 gong^G5475 or^G2228 a clanging^G214 cymbal^G2950.

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 do not have love, I am nothing.

1Co 13:3

1Co 13:3And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body [fn]to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.

1Co 13:4

Love^G26 is^G3114 patient^G3114, love^G26 is kind^G5541, is^G2206 not jealous^G2206, does not brag^G4068, is not puffed^G5448 up^G5448;

1Co 13:5

1Co 13:5it does not act unbecomingly, does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered;

1Co 13:6

1Co 13:6it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

1Co 13:7

1Co 13:7 [fn]it bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1Co 13:8

Love^G26 never^G3763 fails^G4098, but if^G1535 there are gifts of [fn]prophecy^G4394, they will be done^G2673 away^G2673; if^G1535 there are tongues^G1100, they will cease^G3973; if^G1535 there is knowledge^G1108, it will be done^G2673 away^G2673.

1Co 13:9

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

1Co 13:10

1Co 13:10but when the [fn]perfect comes, the partial will be done away.

1Co 13:11

1Co 13:11When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child. When I [fn]became a man, I did away with childish things.

1Co 13:12

1Co 13:12For now we see in a mirror [fn]dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.

1Co 13:13