Thematic Bible




1 Corinthians 13:1 (show verse)

If I speak human or angelic languages
but do not have love,
I am a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

1 Corinthians 13:2 (show verse)

If I have the gift of prophecy
and understand all mysteries
and all knowledge,
and if I have all faith
so that I can move mountains
but do not have love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:3 (show verse)

And if I donate all my goods to feed the poor,
and if I give my body in order to boast
but do not have love, I gain nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:4 (show verse)

Love is patient, love is kind.
Love does not envy,
is not boastful, is not conceited,

1 Corinthians 13:5 (show verse)

does not act improperly,
is not selfish, is not provoked,
and does not keep a record of wrongs.

1 Corinthians 13:6 (show verse)

Love finds no joy in unrighteousness
but rejoices in the truth.

1 Corinthians 13:7 (show verse)

It bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.

1 Corinthians 13:8 (show verse)

Love never ends.
But as for prophecies,
they will come to an end;
as for languages, they will cease;
as for knowledge, it will come to an end.

1 Corinthians 13:9 (show verse)

For we know in part,
and we prophesy in part.

1 Corinthians 13:10 (show verse)

But when the perfect comes,
the partial will come to an end.

1 Corinthians 13:11 (show verse)

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 put aside childish things.

1 Corinthians 13:12 (show verse)

For now we see indistinctly, as in a mirror,
but then face to face.
Now I know in part,
but then I will know fully,
as I am fully known.

1 Corinthians 13:13 (show verse)

Now these three remain:
faith, hope, and love.
But the greatest of these is love.