1Cor 13 | ABEn | STEP | If [ 2 the 3 languages 4 of men 1 I speak] and of the angels, [ 4 love 1 but 3 not 2 I have], I have become brass resounding, or a cymbal sounding loudly.

1 Corinthians 13

CHAPTER 13 The Preeminence of Love

1 If [²the ³languages ⁴of men ¹I speak] and of the angels, [⁴love ¹but ³not ²I have], I have become brass resounding, or a cymbal sounding loudly. 2 And if I have prophecy, and I know the mysteries -- all, and all the knowledge; and if I have all the belief, so as [²mountains ¹to remove], [³love ¹but ²I have not], I am nothing. 3 And if I should distribute all my possessions, and if I should deliver up my body that it should be burned, [³love ¹but ²I have not], not one benefit do I derive. 4 The love is lenient, is kind; the love is not jealous, the love is not rash, not inflated, 5 not indecent, does not seek the things for itself, is not provoked, does not consider the bad, 6 does not rejoice at the injustice, but rejoices with the truth. 7 All things it sustains, all things it trusts, all things it hopes, all things it endures. 8 The love at no time falls off. But whether prophecies, they shall cease work; whether languages, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall cease work. 9 [²in ³part ¹But] we know, and in part we prophesy. 10 But whenever [³should come ¹the ²perfect], then the thing in part shall cease work. 11 When I was an infant, as an infant I spoke, as an infant I thought, as an infant I considered; but when I became a man I ceased in the things of the infant. 12 For we see now by a mirror in an enigma, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall recognize as also I was recognized. 13 But now abide belief, hope, love, these three; but greater of these is the love.