1 Corinthians 12:27-13:3
New American Standard Bible
27 Now you are (A)Christ’s body, and (B)individually parts of it. 28 And God has [a](C)appointed in (D)the church, first (E)apostles, second (F)prophets, third (G)teachers, then [b](H)miracles, then (I)gifts of healings, helps, (J)administrations, and various (K)kinds of tongues. 29 All are not apostles, are they? All are not prophets, are they? All are not teachers, are they? All are not workers of [c]miracles, are they? 30 All do not have gifts of healings, do they? All do not speak with tongues, do they? All do not (L)interpret, do they? 31 But (M)earnestly desire the greater gifts.
And yet, I am going to show you a far better way.
The Excellence of Love
13 If I speak with the (N)tongues of mankind and of (O)angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a (P)clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of (Q)prophecy and know all (R)mysteries and all (S)knowledge, and if I have (T)all faith so as to (U)remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I (V)give away all my possessions to charity, and if I (W)surrender my body so that I may [d]glory, but do not have love, it does me no good.
Footnotes
- 1 Corinthians 12:28 Lit set some in
- 1 Corinthians 12:28 Or works of power
- 1 Corinthians 12:29 Or works of power
- 1 Corinthians 13:3 I.e., in martyrdom
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