1Cor 13:1-8, 13, 2Ti 2:22, 2Pe 1:7 | 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]

q 1 Tim. 6:11

r[1 Tim. 4:12]

s Acts 7:59; 9:14

t 1 Tim. 1:5

uSee Heb. 13:1

v 1 Cor. 13; 1 John 4:16

1 Corinthians 13:1-8

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.

1 Corinthians 13:13

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

2 Timothy 2:22

22 So ^qflee ^ryouthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with ^sthose who call on the Lord ^tfrom a pure heart.

2 Peter 1:7

7 and godliness ^uwith brotherly affection, and brotherly affection ^vwith love.