{"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/wnt/1-corinthians/13","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-26T22:59:05.420Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WNT","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 can speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but am destitute of Love, I have but become a loud-sounding trumpet or a clanging cymbal."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"If I possess the gift of prophecy and am versed in all mysteries and all knowledge, and have such absolute faith that I can remove mountains, but am destitute of Love, I am nothing."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And if I  distribute all my possessions to the poor, and give up my body  to be burned, but am destitute of Love, it profits me nothing."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Love is patient and kind. Love knows neither envy nor jealousy.  Love is not forward and self-assertive, nor boastful and conceited."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"She does not behave unbecomingly, nor seek to aggrandize herself, nor blaze out in passionate anger, nor brood over wrongs."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"She finds no pleasure in injustice done to others, but joyfully sides with the truth."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"She knows how to be silent. She is full of trust, full of hope, full of patient endurance."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Love never fails. But if there are prophecies, they will be  done away with; if there are languages, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be  brought to an end."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"For our knowledge is imperfect, and so is our prophesying;"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"but when the perfect state of things is come, all that is imperfect will be brought to an end."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"When I was a child, I talked like a child,  felt like a child, reasoned like a child: when I  became a man,  I  put from me childish ways."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"For the present we see things as if in a mirror,  and are puzzled; but then we shall see them face to face. For the present the knowledge I gain is imperfect; but then I shall know fully, even as  I am fully known."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"And so there remain Faith, Hope, Love--these three; and of these the greatest is Love."}],"citation":{"inline":"1 Corinthians 13 (WNT)","markdown":"[1 Corinthians 13](https://primebible.com/wnt/1-corinthians/13)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WNT. https://primebible.com/wnt/1-corinthians/13 (accessed 2026-05-26)."}}