1 Corinthians 12:31-13:13

Legacy Standard Bible

³¹ But ^[a]you ^(A)earnestly desire the greater gifts.

And I will yet show you a more excellent way.

The Excellence of Love

13 If I speak with the ^(B)tongues of men and of ^(C)angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a ^(D)clanging cymbal. ² And if I have the gift of ^(E)prophecy, and know all ^(F)mysteries and all ^(G)knowledge; and if I have ^(H)all faith, so as to ^(I)remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. ³ And if I ^(J)give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I ^(K)surrender my body ^[b]to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.

⁴ Love ^(L)is patient, love is kind, ^(M)is not jealous, does not brag, is not ^(N)puffed up; ⁵ it does not act unbecomingly, ^(O)does not seek its own, is not provoked, ^(P)does not take into account a wrong suffered; ^6 (Q)it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but ^(R)rejoices with the truth; ^7 [c](S)it bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

⁸ Love never fails, but if there are gifts of ^[d](T)prophecy, they will be done away; if there are ^(U)tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. ⁹ For we ^(V)know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰ but when the ^[e]perfect comes, the partial will be done away. ¹¹ When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child. When I ^[f]became a man, I did away with childish things. ¹² For now we ^(W)see in a mirror ^[g]dimly, but then ^(X)face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also ^(Y)have been fully known. ¹³ But now abide faith, hope, love—these three; but the ^[h]greatest of these is ^(Z)love.