1Co 13:1 If I make use of the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am like sounding brass, or a loud-tongued bell.
1Co 13:2 And if I have a prophet's power, and have knowledge of all secret things; and if I have all faith, by which mountains may be moved from their place, but have not love, I am nothing.
1Co 13:3 And if I give all my goods to the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it is of no profit to me.
1Co 13:4 Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride;
1Co 13:5 Love's ways are ever fair, it takes no thought for itself; it is not quickly made angry, it takes no account of evil;
1Co 13:6 It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but has joy in what is true;
1Co 13:7 Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things.
1Co 13:8 Though the prophet's word may come to an end, tongues come to nothing, and knowledge have no more value, love has no end.
1Co 13:9 For our knowledge is only in part, and the prophet's word gives only a part of what is true:
1Co 13:10 But when that which is complete is come, then that which is in part will be no longer necessary.
1Co 13:11 When I was a child, I made use of a child's language, I had a child's feelings and a child's thoughts: now that I am a man, I have put away the things of a child.
1Co 13:12 For now we see things in a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now my knowledge is in part; then it will be complete, even as God's knowledge of me.
1Co 13:13 But now we still have faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
1Co 14:1 Go after love; still desiring to have the things which the Spirit gives, but most of all that you may have the prophet's power.
1Co 14:2 For he who makes use of tongues is not talking to men but to God; because no one has the sense of what he is saying; but in the Spirit he is talking of secret things.
1Co 14:3 But the word of the prophet gives men knowledge and comfort and strength.
1Co 14:4 He who makes use of tongues may do good to himself; but he who gives the prophet's word does good to the church.
1Co 14:5 Now though it is my desire for you all to have the power of tongues, it would give me more pleasure to be hearing the prophet's word from you; for this is a greater thing than using tongues, if the sense is not given at the same time, for the good of the church.
1Co 14:6 But, now, my brothers, if I come to you using tongues, what profit will it be to you, if I do not give you a revelation, or knowledge, or the word of the prophet, or teaching?
1Co 14:7 Even things without life, having a voice, such as a music-pipe or other instrument, if they do not give out different sounds, who may be certain what is being played?
1Co 14:8 For if the war-horn gives out an uncertain note, who will get ready for the fight?
1Co 14:9 So if you, in using a strange tongue, say words which have no sense, how will anyone take in what you are saying? for you will be talking to the air.
1Co 14:10 There are, it may be, a number of different voices in the world, and no voice is without sense.
1Co 14:11 But if the sense of the voice is not clear to me, I am like a man
