{"book":"1 Corinthians","slug":"1-corinthians","ch":13,"genre":"letter","sub":"1 Corinthians","prev":"1-corinthians/12","next":"1-corinthians/14","verses":[{"v":1,"t":"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am [only a] ringing gong or [a] clanging cymbal.","f":[],"h":"Love","style":"reg"},{"v":2,"t":"If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.","f":[]},{"v":3,"t":"If I give all I possess {to the poor} and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.","f":["SBL, NE, BYZ, and TR surrender my body to be burned"]},{"v":4,"t":"Love is patient, love is kind. [It] does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":5,"t":"It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.","f":[]},{"v":6,"t":"[Love] takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.","f":[]},{"v":7,"t":"It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.","f":[]},{"v":8,"t":"Love never fails. But where [there are] prophecies, they will cease; where [there are] tongues, they will be restrained; where [there is] knowledge, it will be dismissed.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":9,"t":"For we know in part and we prophesy in part,","f":[]},{"v":10,"t":"but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.","f":[]},{"v":11,"t":"When 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 set aside childish ways.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":12,"t":"Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then [we shall see] face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.","f":[]},{"v":13,"t":"And now these three remain: faith, hope, [and] love; but [the] greatest of these [is] love.","f":[],"style":"reg"}]}