13If I speak human or angelic tongues but do not have love,^x I am a noisy gong^y or a clanging cymbal. ²If I have the gift of prophecy^z and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can move mountains^aa but do not have love, I am nothing. ³And if I give away all my possessions, and if I give over my body in order to boast^A but do not have love, I gain nothing.

⁴Love is patient,^ab love is kind. Love does not envy,^ac is not boastful, is not arrogant,^ad ⁵is not rude, is not self-seeking,^ae is not irritable,^af and does not keep a record of wrongs. ⁶Love finds no joy in unrighteousness but rejoices in the truth.^ag ⁷It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures^ah all things.

⁸Love never ends.^ai But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. ⁹For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰but when the perfect comes, the partial will come to an end. ¹¹When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put aside childish things. ¹²For now we see only a reflection^B as in a mirror, but then face to face.^aj Now I know in part, but then I will know fully,^ak as I am fully known.^al ¹³Now these three remain: faith, hope,^am and love—but the greatest of these is love.

Read in Logos

1 Corinthians 13:11: When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.

Footnotes

AOther read body to be burned
B we see indirectly

Cross references

x Jn 13:35; 1Jn 4:7–12
y Mt 10:9
z 1Co 14:1,3–6,22–39; Eph 4:11; 1Th 5:20
aa Mt 17:20
ab 1Th 5:14
ac Nm 25:13; Gl 4:17
ad 1Co 4:6
ae Mk 10:45; Php 2:4
af Ac 17:16
ag Ps 119:142; Jn 8:14; 14:6
ah Jms 1:12
ai Mt 7:25,27; Lk 6:49; 11:17; 13:4; 16:17; Ac 15:16; Heb 11:30; Rv 11:13; 16:19
aj 1Jn 3:2
ak Pr 2:6; Jn 17:3; 1Jn 4:8
al 1Co 8:3; Gl 4:9
am 1Th 1:3