📖WEB · 1 Corinthians 13:1
What does 1 Corinthians 13:1 mean?
"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."
— 1 Corinthians 13:1 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
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.
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.
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.
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
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