1 Corinthians 13 — parallel

13:1

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

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.

13:2

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

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.

13:3

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my , but have not love, I gain nothing.

13:4

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity itself, is not puffed up,

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

13:5

Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.

13:6

Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth ;

Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.

13:7

Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

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

13:8

Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

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.

13:9

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

For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

13:10

But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.

13:11

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

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.

13:12

For now we see through a glass, ; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

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.

13:13

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.