Bible Gateway passage: 1 Corinthians 13 - New International Version (2024)

13If I speak in the tongues^[a](A) of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. ²If I have the gift of prophecy^(B) and can fathom all mysteries^(C) and all knowledge,^(D) and if I have a faith^(E) that can move mountains,^(F) but do not have love, I am nothing. ³If I give all I possess to the poor^(G) and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,^[b](H) but do not have love, I gain nothing.

⁴Love is patient,^(I) love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.^{(J) 5}It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking,^(K) it is not easily angered,^(L) it keeps no record of wrongs.^{(M) 6}Love does not delight in evil^(N) but rejoices with the truth.^{(O) 7}It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.^(P)

⁸Love never fails. But where there are prophecies,^(Q) they will cease; where there are tongues,^(R) they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹For we know in part^(S) and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰but when completeness comes,^(T) what is in part disappears. ¹¹When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood^(U) behind me. ¹²For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror;^(V) then we shall see face to face.^(W) Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.^(X)

¹³And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.^(Y) But the greatest of these is love.^(Z)

Footnotes

1. 1 Corinthians 13:1 Or languages
2. 1 Corinthians 13:3 Some manuscripts body to the flames

Cross references

1. 1 Corinthians 13:1 : ver 8; S Mk 16:17
2. 1 Corinthians 13:2 : ver 8; S Eph 4:11; S Ac 11:27
3. 1 Corinthians 13:2 : 1Co 14:2
4. 1 Corinthians 13:2 : S 2Co 8:7
5. 1 Corinthians 13:2 : 1Co 12:9
6. 1 Corinthians 13:2 : Mt 17:20; 21:21
7. 1 Corinthians 13:3 : Lk 19:8; S Ac 2:45
8. 1 Corinthians 13:3 : Da 3:28
9. 1 Corinthians 13:4 : 1Th 5:14
10. 1 Corinthians 13:4 : 1Co 5:2
11. 1 Corinthians 13:5 : S 1Co 10:24
12. 1 Corinthians 13:5 : S Mt 5:22
13. 1 Corinthians 13:5 : Job 14:16, 17; Pr 10:12; 17:9; 1Pe 4:8
14. 1 Corinthians 13:6 : 2Th 2:12
15. 1 Corinthians 13:6 : 2Jn 4; 3Jn 3, 4
16. 1 Corinthians 13:7 : ver 8, 13
17. 1 Corinthians 13:8 : ver 2
18. 1 Corinthians 13:8 : ver 1
19. 1 Corinthians 13:9 : ver 12; S 1Co 8:2
20. 1 Corinthians 13:10 : Php 3:12
21. 1 Corinthians 13:11 : Ps 131:2
22. 1 Corinthians 13:12 : Job 26:14; 36:26
23. 1 Corinthians 13:12 : Ge 32:30; Job 19:26; 1Jn 3:2
24. 1 Corinthians 13:12 : 1Co 8:3; Gal 4:9
25. 1 Corinthians 13:13 : Ro 5:2-5; Gal 5:5, 6; Eph 4:2-5; Col 1:4, 5; 1Th 1:3; 5:8; Heb 6:10-12
26. 1 Corinthians 13:13 : Mt 22:37-40; 1Co 16:14; Gal 5:6; 1Jn 4:7-12, 16