1 Corinthians 13

⁵The goal of our instruction is the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.

⁸Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

⁸Love 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.

⁶For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. What matters is faith expressing itself through love.

²If 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.

³If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.

⁸Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

³If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.

²⁰If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

²¹And we have this commandment from Him: Whoever loves God must love his brother as well.

²⁰“Because you have so little faith,” He answered. “For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”

²¹“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen.

²²If anyone does not love the Lord, let him be under a curse. Come, O Lord!

¹⁴What good is it, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith, but has no deeds? Can such faith save him?

¹⁵Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food.

¹³Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

⁵All their deeds are done for men to see. They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels.

¹“Be careful not to perform your righteous acts before men to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

²So when you give to the needy, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.

²²Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’

²³Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’

⁸For physical exercise is of limited value, but godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for the present life and for the one to come.

⁸Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

³²Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you.

²¹and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

¹²Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.

¹²Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.

¹¹Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

²⁴No one should seek his own good, but the good of others.

³Do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty pride, but in humility consider others more important than yourselves.

⁴Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.

¹⁶By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

¹⁷If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?

¹⁹My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,

²¹For all the others look after their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.

⁸Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think on these things.

⁹Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.

³For I was overjoyed when the brothers came and testified about your devotion to the truth, in which you continue to walk.

⁴I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

⁴I was overjoyed to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father has commanded us.

³²Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them.

¹²in order that judgment may come upon all who have disbelieved the truth and delighted in wickedness.

⁸They feed on the sins of My people and set their hearts on iniquity.

⁸Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

⁴Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

²⁴He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”

²⁴And a servant of the Lord must not be quarrelsome, but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, and forbearing.

¹²Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.

²Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

¹³And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.

¹If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.

²If 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.

⁶For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. What matters is faith expressing itself through love.

⁴And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.

¹⁰but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.

¹³By speaking of a new covenant, He has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.

²that they may be encouraged in heart, knit together in love, and filled with the full riches of complete understanding, so that they may know the mystery of God, namely Christ,

³in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

¹⁸will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth

¹⁹of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

⁹Rather, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.”

⁶Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

¹²Now 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.

²The one who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.

¹²Now 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.

¹⁹No longer will the sun be your light by day, nor the brightness of the moon shine on your night; for the Lord will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your splendor.

²⁰Your sun will no longer set, and your moon will not wane; for the Lord will be your everlasting light, and the days of your sorrow will cease.

⁷For we walk by faith, not by sight.

⁸We are confident, then, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

²³The moon will be confounded and the sun will be ashamed; for the Lord of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before His elders with great glory.

⁴They will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads.

⁵There will be no more night in the city, and they will have no need for the light of a lamp or of the sun. For the Lord God will shine on them, and they will reign forever and ever.

²²But I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.

²³And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its lamp.

²⁰Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.

¹Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.

²I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready,

¹What I am saying is that as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, although he is the owner of everything.

¹⁰So banish sorrow from your heart, and cast off pain from your body, for youth and vigor are fleeting.

²Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.

¹⁸And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

⁹For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

¹⁰but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.

¹²Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.

⁴They will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads.

⁸Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

¹⁴Do everything in love.

¹⁴And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.

⁷Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

⁸Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

¹If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.

²If 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.

⁶For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. What matters is faith expressing itself through love.

²⁹Jesus replied, “This is the most important: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.

³⁰Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’