1 Corinthians 13 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

The Greatest Gift

The Greatest Spiritual Gift

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

1Co 13:2

1Co 13:2And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

1Co 13:3

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

1Co 13:4

1Co 13:4Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;

1Co 13:5

1Co 13:5does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;

1Co 13:6

1Co 13:6does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

1Co 13:7

1Co 13:7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1Co 13:8

1Co 13:8Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish 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 has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

1Co 13:11

1Co 13:11When 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.

1Co 13:12

1Co 13:12For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

1Co 13:13

1Co 13:13And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

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NKJV Footnotes

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NU-Text reads so I may boast.

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