1Cor 13:1-3 | 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 .

a[ch. 14:1, 39; Matt. 7:22]; See Acts 2:18

1 Corinthians 13:1-3

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.