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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.

1 Corinthians 13:4 Or, is not rash
1 Corinthians 13:6 Or, with the truth
1 Corinthians 13:11 Or, reasoned
1 Corinthians 13:12 Gr. in a riddle

Scripture quotations from The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible, using the standardized text of 1769. It is in the public domain.

Greek Bible (LXX/BYZ)

1 Corinthians 13 (BYZ)

[1] Ἐὰν () ταῖς () γλώσσαις () τῶν () ἀνθρώπων () λαλῶ () καὶ () τῶν () ἀγγέλων, () ἀγάπην () δὲ () μὴ () ἔχω, () γέγονα () χαλκὸς () ἠχῶν () ἢ () κύμβαλον () ἀλαλάζον. ()
[2] Καὶ () ἐὰν () ἔχω () προφητείαν, () καὶ () εἰδῶ () τὰ () μυστήρια () πάντα () καὶ () πᾶσαν () τὴν () γνῶσιν, () καὶ () ἐὰν () ἔχω () πᾶσαν () τὴν () πίστιν, () ὥστε () ὄρη () μεθιστάνειν, () ἀγάπην () δὲ () μὴ () ἔχω, () οὐθέν () εἰμι. ()
[3] Καὶ () ἐὰν () ψωμίσω () πάντα () τὰ () ὑπάρχοντά () μου, () καὶ () ἐὰν () παραδῶ () τὸ () σῶμά () μου () ἵνα () καυθήσωμαι, () ἀγάπην () δὲ () μὴ () ἔχω, () οὐδὲν () ὠφελοῦμαι. ()
[4] Ἡ () ἀγάπη () μακροθυμεῖ, () χρηστεύεται· () ἡ () ἀγάπη () οὐ () ζηλοῖ· () ἡ () ἀγάπη () οὐ () περπερεύεται, () οὐ () φυσιοῦται, ()
[5] οὐκ () ἀσχημονεῖ, () οὐ () ζητεῖ () τὰ () ἑαυτῆς, () οὐ () παροξύνεται, () οὐ () λογίζεται () τὸ () κακόν, ()
[6] οὐ () χαίρει () ἐπὶ () τῇ () ἀδικίᾳ, () συγχαίρει () δὲ () τῇ () ἀληθείᾳ, ()
[7] πάντα () στέγει, () πάντα () πιστεύει, () πάντα () ἐλπίζει, () πάντα () ὑπομένει. ()
[8] Ἡ () ἀγάπη () οὐδέποτε () ἐκπίπτει· () εἴτε () δὲ () προφητεῖαι, () καταργηθήσονται· () εἴτε () γλῶσσαι, () παύσονται· () εἴτε () γνῶσις, () καταργηθήσεται. ()
[9] Ἐκ () μέρους () δὲ () γινώσκομεν, () καὶ () ἐκ () μέρους () προφητεύομεν· ()
[10] ὅταν () δὲ () ἔλθῃ () τὸ () τέλειον, () τότε () τὸ () ἐκ () μέρους () καταργηθήσεται. ()
[11] Ὅτε () ἤμην () νήπιος, () ὡς () νήπιος () ἐλάλουν, () ὡς () νήπιος () ἐφρόνουν, () ὡς () νήπιος () ἐλογιζόμην· () ὅτε () δὲ () γέγονα () ἀνήρ, () κατήργηκα () τὰ () τοῦ () νηπίου. ()
[12] Βλέπομεν () γὰρ () ἄρτι () δι’ () ἐσόπτρου () ἐν () αἰνίγματι, () τότε () δὲ () πρόσωπον () πρὸς () πρόσωπον· () ἄρτι () γινώσκω () ἐκ () μέρους, () τότε () δὲ () ἐπιγνώσομαι () καθὼς () καὶ () ἐπεγνώσθην. ()
[13] Νυνὶ () δὲ () μένει () πίστις, () ἐλπίς, () ἀγάπη, () τὰ () τρία () ταῦτα· () μείζων () δὲ () τούτων () ἡ () ἀγάπη. ()

1 Corinthians 13:2a Καὶ ἐὰν … καὶ ἐὰν ¦ WH Κἂν … κἂν
1 Corinthians 13:2b μεθιστάνειν ¦ NA SBL TH μεθιστάναι
1 Corinthians 13:2c οὐθὲν ¦ PT SCR οὐδὲν
1 Corinthians 13:3a Καὶ ἐὰν ¦ NA TH WH Κἂν
1 Corinthians 13:3b καὶ ἐὰν ¦ WH κἂν
1 Corinthians 13:3c καυθήσωμαι ¦ PCK PT RPmg SBL TH καυθήσομαι ¦ NA WH καυχήσωμαι
1 Corinthians 13:4 ἡ ἀγάπη ¦ [NA] ¦ WH om.
1 Corinthians 13:6 συγχαίρει ¦ TH WH συνχαίρει
1 Corinthians 13:8 ἐκπίπτει ¦ CT πίπτει
1 Corinthians 13:9a δὲ ¦ CT TR γὰρ
1 Corinthians 13:9b γινώσκομεν ¦ TH γεινώσκομεν
1 Corinthians 13:10 τότε ¦ CT om.
1 Corinthians 13:11a ὡς νήπιος ἐλάλουν ὡς νήπιος ἐφρόνουν ὡς νήπιος ἐλογιζόμην ¦ CT ἐλάλουν ὡς νήπιος ἐφρόνουν ὡς νήπιος ἐλογιζόμην ὡς νήπιος
1 Corinthians 13:11b δὲ ¦ CT om.
1 Corinthians 13:12 γινώσκω ¦ TH γεινώσκω

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