{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/1-corinthians/13","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-31T12:21:36.227Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"1 Corinthians","bookSlug":"1-corinthians","chapter":13,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":12,"nextChapter":14,"totalChapters":16,"totalVerses":13},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"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 profits me nothing."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Charity suffers long, and is kind; charity envies not; charity braggs not itself, is not puffed up,"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil;"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Charity never fails: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"For we know in part, and we prophesy in part."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"And now stays faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity."}],"citation":{"inline":"1 Corinthians 13 (AKJV)","markdown":"[1 Corinthians 13](https://primebible.com/akjv/1-corinthians/13)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/1-corinthians/13 (accessed 2026-05-31)."}}