1Cor 13 | ESV | STEP | If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels , but have not love , I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal .

p[See ver. 4 above]

s James 1:23; [Num. 12:8; Job 36:26; 2 Cor. 3:18; 5:7]

1 Corinthians 13

The Way of Love

1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have ^aprophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, ^bso as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 ^cIf I give away all I have, and ^dif I deliver up my body to be burned, ^{▼▼Some manuscripts deliver up my body [to death] that I may boast} but have not love, I gain nothing.

4 ^fLove is patient and ^gkind; love ^hdoes not envy or boast; it ⁱis not arrogant 5 or rude. It ^jdoes not insist on its own way; it ^kis not irritable or resentful; ^{▼▼Greek irritable and does not count up wrongdoing} 6 it ^mdoes not rejoice at wrongdoing, but ⁿrejoices with the truth. 7 ^oLove bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, ^pendures all things.

8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For ^qwe know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but ^rwhen the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 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. 12 For ^snow we see in a mirror dimly, but ^tthen face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as ^uI have been fully known.

13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.