{"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/erv/1-corinthians/13","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-02T19:44:39.218Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ERV","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 the gift of 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 bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be 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 is come, that which is in part shall be done away."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I have been known."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love."}],"citation":{"inline":"1 Corinthians 13 (ERV)","markdown":"[1 Corinthians 13](https://primebible.com/erv/1-corinthians/13)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ERV. https://primebible.com/erv/1-corinthians/13 (accessed 2026-06-02)."}}