{"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/dbt/1-corinthians/13","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-02T19:46:46.902Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"1 Corinthians","bookSlug":"1-corinthians","chapter":13,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":12,"nextChapter":14,"totalChapters":16,"totalVerses":13},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And if I shall dole out all my goods in food, and if I deliver up my body that I may be burned, but have not love, I profit nothing."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Love has long patience, is kind; love is not emulous of others; love is not insolent and rash, is not puffed up,"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"does not behave in an unseemly manner, does not seek what is its own, is not quickly provoked, does not impute evil,"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"does not rejoice at iniquity but rejoices with the truth,"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Love never fails; but whether prophecies, they shall be done away; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be done away."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"For we know in part, and we prophesy in part:"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"but when that which is perfect has come, that which is in part shall be done away."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child; when I became a man, I had done with what belonged to the child."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"For we see now through a dim window obscurely, but then face to face; now I know partially, but then I shall know according as I also have been known."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"And now abide faith, hope, love; these three things; and the greater of these is love."}],"citation":{"inline":"1 Corinthians 13 (DBT)","markdown":"[1 Corinthians 13](https://primebible.com/dbt/1-corinthians/13)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/1-corinthians/13 (accessed 2026-06-02)."}}