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World English Bible

1 Corinthians 13 (WEBP)

[1] If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
[2] 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 don’t have love, I am nothing.
[3] If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.
[4] Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
[5] doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
[6] doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
[7] bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
[8] Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.
[9] For we know in part and we prophesy in part;
[10] but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.
[11] When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.
[12] For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.
[13] But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

Scripture quotations are taken from The World English Bible™ of eBible.org, 2020 stable text edition. It is in the public domain.

King James w/Strong’s #s

1 Corinthians 13 (KJVS)

[1] 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 .
[2] 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 .
[3] 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 profiteth me () nothing .
[4] Charity suffereth long (), [and] is kind (); charity envieth () not ; charity vaunteth not itself (), is not puffed up (),
[5] Doth not behave itself unseemly (), seeketh () not her own , is not easily provoked (), thinketh () no evil ;
[6] Rejoiceth () not in iniquity , but rejoiceth () in the truth ;
[7] Beareth () all things , believeth () all things , hopeth () all things , endureth () all things .
[8] Charity never faileth (): but whether [there be] prophecies , they shall fail (); whether [there be] tongues , they shall cease (); whether [there be] knowledge , it shall vanish away ().
[9] For we know () in part , and we prophesy () in part .
[10] But when that which is perfect is come (), then that which is in part shall be done away ().
[11] When I was () a child , I spake () as a child , I understood () as a child , I thought () as a child : but when I became () a man , I put away () childish things .
[12] 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 ().
[13] And now abideth () faith , hope , charity , these three ; but the greatest of these [is] charity .

Young’s Literal Translation

1 Corinthians 13 (YLT)

[1] If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;
[2] 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;
[3] 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.
[4] The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,
[5] doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,
[6] rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth;
[7] all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth.
[8] 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;
[9] for in part we know, and in part we prophecy;
[10] and when that which is perfect may come, then that which is in part shall become useless.
[11] 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;
[12] 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;
[13] and now there doth remain faith, hope, love-these three; and the greatest of these is love.