1 Corinthians 12:27-13:8
Holman Christian Standard Bible
27 Now you are the body of Christ,(A) and individual members of it. 28 And God has placed these in the church:(B)
first apostles, second prophets,
third teachers,(C) next miracles,(D)
then gifts of healing,(E) helping,
managing, various kinds of languages.
29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets?
Are all teachers? Do all do miracles?
30 Do all have gifts of healing?
Do all speak in other languages?
Do all interpret?(F)
31 But desire(G) the greater gifts. And I will show you an even better way.
Love: The Superior Way
13 If I speak human or angelic languages
but do not have love,(H)
I am a sounding gong(I) or a clanging cymbal.
2 If I have the gift of prophecy(J)
and understand all mysteries
and all knowledge,
and if I have all faith
so that I can move mountains(K)
but do not have love, I am nothing.
3 And if I donate all my goods to feed the poor,
and if I give my body in order to boast[a]
but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient,(L) love is kind.
Love does not envy,(M)
is not boastful, is not conceited,(N)
5 does not act improperly,
is not selfish,(O) is not provoked,(P)
and does not keep a record of wrongs.
6 Love finds no joy in unrighteousness
but rejoices in the truth.(Q)
7 It bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures(R) all things.
8 Love never ends.(S)
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.
Footnotes
- 1 Corinthians 13:3 Other mss read body to be burned
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