1 Corinthians 13

Love Is Indispensable

1 If I speak in the tongues^[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,^[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

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

10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.

11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

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Cross References 26

1. ver 8; S Mark 16:17
2. ver 8; S Ephesians 4:11; S Acts 11:27
3. 1 Corinthians 14:2
4. S 2 Corinthians 8:7
5. 1 Corinthians 12:9
6. Matthew 17:20; Matthew 21:21
7. Luke 19:8; S Acts 2:45; Matthew 6:2
8. Daniel 3:28
9. 1 Thessalonians 5:14
10. 1 Corinthians 5:2
11. S 1 Corinthians 10:24
12. S Matthew 5:22
13. Job 14:16,17; Proverbs 10:12; Proverbs 17:9; 1 Peter 4:8
14. 2 Thessalonians 2:12
15. 2 John 4; 3Jn 3,4
16. ver 8,13
17. ver 2
18. ver 1
19. ver 12; S 1 Corinthians 8:2
20. Philippians 3:12
21. Psalms 131:2
22. Job 26:14; Job 36:26
23. Genesis 32:30; Job 19:26; 2 Corinthians 5:7; 1 John 3:2
24. 1 Corinthians 8:3; Galatians 4:9
25. Romans 5:2-5; Galatians 5:5,6; Ephesians 4:2-5; Colossians 1:4,5; 1 Thessalonians 1:3; 1 Thessalonians 5:8; Hebrews 6:10-12
26. Matthew 22:37-40; 1 Corinthians 16:14; Galatians 5:6; 1Jn 4:7-12,16