1Cor 13 | NASB2020 | STEP | If I speak with the tongues of mankind and of angels , but do not have love , I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal .

1 Corinthians 13

The Excellence of Love

1 If I speak with the ^atongues of mankind and of ^bangels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a ^cclanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of ^dprophecy and know all ^emysteries and all ^fknowledge, and if I have ^gall faith so as to ^hremove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I ⁱgive away all my possessions to charity, and if I ^jsurrender my body so that I may ^{▼▼I.e., in martyrdom}glory, but do not have love, it does me no good.

4 Love ^lis patient, love is kind, it ^mis not jealous; love does not brag, it is not ⁿarrogant. 5 It does not act disgracefully, it ^odoes not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, ^pdoes not keep an account of a wrong suffered, 6 ^qit does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but ^rrejoices with the truth; 7 it ^{▼▼Lit covers all things
,} ^tkeeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never fails; but if there are gifts of ^{▼▼Lit prophecies
,} ^vprophecy, they will be done away with; if there are ^wtongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away with. 9 For we ^xknow in part and prophesy in part; 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away with. 11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I ^{▼▼Lit have become...have done away with}became a man, I did away with childish things. 12 For now we ^zsee in a mirror ^{▼▼Lit in a riddle}dimly, but then ^abface to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I also ^achave been fully known. 13 But now faith, hope, and love remain, these three; but the ^{▼▼Lit greater}greatest of these is ^aelove.