Verse 1

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Tim 1:5 : 5 But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned:
  • 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For, uttering great swelling [words] of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;
  • Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.
  • Gal 5:22 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
  • 1 Cor 13:2-3 : 2 And 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 have not love, I am nothing. 3 And if I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
  • 1 Cor 13:8 : 8 Love never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall be done away; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall be done away.
  • 1 Cor 14:6-8 : 6 But now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching? 7 Even things without life, giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, if they give not a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? 8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain voice, who shall prepare himself for war?
  • 2 Cor 12:4 : 4 how that he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
  • 1 Cor 8:1 : 1 Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
  • 1 Cor 12:16 : 16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body.
  • 1 Cor 12:29-30 : 29 Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all [workers of] miracles? 30 have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
  • Rom 14:15 : 15 For if because of meat thy brother is grieved, thou walkest no longer in love. Destroy not with thy meat him for whom Christ died.
  • Matt 25:45 : 45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not unto one of these least, ye did it not unto me.
  • 1 Cor 12:8 : 8 For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom; and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit: