(A)If I give away all I have, and (B)if I deliver up my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, I gain nothing.

(C)Love is patient and (D)kind; love (E)does not envy or boast; it (F)is not arrogant or rude. It (G)does not insist on its own way; it (H)is not irritable or resentful;[b] it (I)does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but (J)rejoices with the truth.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 13:3 Some manuscripts deliver up my body [to death] that I may boast
  2. 1 Corinthians 13:5 Greek irritable and does not count up wrongdoing

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