Epistle
1 Cor 13.4-14.5
Read in contextBrethren, love
13:4Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
13:5Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
13:6Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
13:7Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
13:8Charity 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.
13:9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
13:10But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
13:11When 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.
13:12For 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.
13:13And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these [is] charity.
14:1Follow after charity, and desire spiritual [gifts], but rather that ye may prophesy.
14:2For he that speaketh in an [unknown] tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth [him]; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.
14:3But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men [to] edification, and exhortation, and comfort.
14:4He that speaketh in an [unknown] tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.
14:5I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater [is] he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.