BSB · Scripture
1 Corinthians 13
Berean Standard Bible
Section headings and translator notes come from the publisher; they are reading aids, distinct from the Bible text.
Love
Verse1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.
Verse2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
Verse3If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Verse4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
Verse5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
Verse6Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
Verse7It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Verse8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed.
Verse9For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
Verse10but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.
Verse11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.
Verse12Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
Verse13And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
Translator notes (1)
- Verse 3: SBL, NE, BYZ, and TR surrender my body to be burned