1Cor 13 | RWebs | STEP | Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels , and have not charity , I am become as sounding brass , or a tinkling cymbal .

1 Corinthians 13

1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2 And 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, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, ^{▼▼vaunteth...: or, is not rash} 5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; ^{▼▼in the truth: or, with the truth} 7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

8 Charity never faileth: but whether there areprophecies, they shall be done away; whether there aretongues, they shall cease; whether there isknowledge, it shall vanish away. ^{▼▼fail: Gr. vanish away} 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. ^{▼▼done away: Gr. vanish away} 11 When 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. ^{▼▼thought: or, reasoned
,} ^{▼▼put away: Gr. vanish away} 12 For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. ^{▼▼darkly: Gr. in a riddle} 13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.