{"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/ylt/1-corinthians/13","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-02T19:44:46.846Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"1 Corinthians","bookSlug":"1-corinthians","chapter":13,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":12,"nextChapter":14,"totalChapters":16,"totalVerses":13},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth;"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"The love doth never fail; and whether there be prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"for in part we know, and in part we prophecy;"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"and when that which is perfect may come, then that which is in part shall become useless."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known;"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"and now there doth remain faith, hope, love — these three; and the greatest of these is love."}],"citation":{"inline":"1 Corinthians 13 (YLT)","markdown":"[1 Corinthians 13](https://primebible.com/ylt/1-corinthians/13)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/1-corinthians/13 (accessed 2026-06-02)."}}