1 Corinthians 13:1

Geneva Bible (1560)

Though I speake with the tongues of men and Angels, and haue not loue, I am as sounding brasse, or a tinkling cymbal.

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  • 1 Tim 1:5 : 5 For the end of the commaundement is loue out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith vnfained.
  • 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 But aboue all thinges haue feruent loue among you: for loue shall couer the multitude of sinnes.
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For in speaking swelling wordes of vanitie, they beguile with wantonnesse through the lusts of the flesh them that were cleane escaped from them which are wrapped in errour,
  • Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Iesus Christ neither circumcision auaileth any thing, neither vncircumcision, but faith which worketh by loue.
  • Gal 5:22 : 22 But the fruite of the Spirit is loue, ioye, peace, long suffering, gentlenes, goodnes, fayth,
  • 1 Cor 13:2-3 : 2 And though I had the gift of prophecie, and knewe all secrets and all knowledge, yea, if I had all faith, so that I could remooue mountaines and had not loue, I were nothing. 3 And though I feede the poore with all my goods, and though I giue my body, that I be burned, and haue not loue, it profiteth me nothing.
  • 1 Cor 13:8 : 8 Loue doeth neuer fall away, though that prophecyings be abolished, or the tongues cease, or knowledge vanish away.
  • 1 Cor 14:6-8 : 6 And nowe, brethren, if I come vnto you speaking diuers tongues, what shall I profite you, except I speake to you, either by reuelation, or by knowledge, or by prophecying, or by doctrine? 7 Moreouer things without life which giue a sounde, whether it be a pipe or an harpe, except they make a distinction in the soundes, how shall it be knowen what is piped or harped? 8 And also if the trumpet giue an vncertaine sound, who shall prepare himselfe to battell?
  • 2 Cor 12:4 : 4 How that he was taken vp into Paradise, and heard words which cannot be spoken, which are not possible for man to vtter.
  • 1 Cor 8:1 : 1 And as touching things sacrificed vnto idols, wee knowe that wee all haue knowledge: knowledge puffeth vp, but loue edifieth.
  • 1 Cor 12:16 : 16 And if the eare would say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body?
  • 1 Cor 12:29-30 : 29 Are all Apostles? are all Prophetes? are all teachers? 30 Are all doers of miracles? haue all the gifts of healing? doe all speake with tongues? doe all interprete?
  • Rom 14:15 : 15 But if thy brother be grieued for the meate, nowe walkest thou not charitably: destroy not him with thy meate, for whome Christ dyed.
  • Matt 25:45 : 45 Then shall he answere them, and say, Verely I say vnto you, in as much as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
  • 1 Cor 12:8 : 8 For to one is giuen by the Spirit the word of wisdome: and to an other the word of knowledge, by the same Spirit:

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  • 1 Cor 13:2-5
    4 verses
    85%

    2And though I had the gift of prophecie, and knewe all secrets and all knowledge, yea, if I had all faith, so that I could remooue mountaines and had not loue, I were nothing.

    3And though I feede the poore with all my goods, and though I giue my body, that I be burned, and haue not loue, it profiteth me nothing.

    4Loue suffreth long: it is bountifull: loue enuieth not: loue doeth not boast it selfe: it is not puffed vp:

    5It doeth no vncomely thing: it seeketh not her owne things: it is not prouoked to anger: it thinketh not euill:

  • 1 Cor 13:7-8
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    7It suffreth all things: it beleeueth all things: it hopeth all things: it endureth all things.

    8Loue doeth neuer fall away, though that prophecyings be abolished, or the tongues cease, or knowledge vanish away.

  • 1 Cor 14:1-23
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    1Folowe after loue, and couet spirituall giftes, and rather that ye may prophecie.

    2For hee that speaketh a strange tongue, speaketh not vnto men, but vnto God: for no man heareth him: howbeit in the spirit he speaketh secret things.

    3But he that prophecieth, speaketh vnto me to edifying, and to exhortation, and to comfort.

    4He that speaketh strange language, edifieth himselfe: but hee that prophecieth, edifieth the Church.

    5I would that ye all spake strange languages, but rather that ye prophecied: for greater is hee that prophecieth, then hee that speaketh diuers tongues, except hee expounde it, that the Church may receiue edification.

    6And nowe, brethren, if I come vnto you speaking diuers tongues, what shall I profite you, except I speake to you, either by reuelation, or by knowledge, or by prophecying, or by doctrine?

    7Moreouer things without life which giue a sounde, whether it be a pipe or an harpe, except they make a distinction in the soundes, how shall it be knowen what is piped or harped?

    8And also if the trumpet giue an vncertaine sound, who shall prepare himselfe to battell?

    9So likewise you, by the tongue, except yee vtter wordes that haue signification, howe shall it be vnderstand what is spoken? for ye shal speake in the ayre.

    10There are so many kindes of voyces (as it commeth to passe) in the world, and none of them is dumme.

    11Except I know then the power of ye voyce, I shall be vnto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh, shalbe a barbarian vnto me.

    12Euen so, forasmuch as ye couet spirituall giftes, seeke that ye may excell vnto the edifying of the Church.

    13Wherefore, let him that speaketh a strange tongue, pray, that he may interprete.

    14For if I pray in a strange togue, my spirit prayeth: but mine vnderstading is without fruite.

    15What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, but I wil pray with the vnderstanding also: I wil sing with the spirite, but I will sing with the vnderstanding also.

    16Else, when thou blessest with the spirit, howe shall hee that occupieth the roome of the vnlearned, say Amen, at thy giuing of thankes, seeing he knoweth not what thou sayest?

    17For thou verely giuest thankes well, but the other is not edified.

    18I thanke my God, I speake languages more then ye all.

    19Yet had I rather in the Church to speake fiue wordes with mine vnderstanding, that I might also instruct others, then ten thousande wordes in a strange tongue.

    20Brethren, be not children in vnderstanding, but as concerning maliciousnes be children, but in vnderstanding be of a ripe age.

    21In the Lawe it is written, By men of other tongues, and by other languages will I speake vnto this people: yet so shal they not heare me, sayth the Lord.

    22Wherefore strange tongues are for a signe, not to them that beleeue, but to them that beleeue not: but prophecying serueth not for them that beleeue not, but for them which beleeue.

    23If therefore when the whole Church is come together in one, and all speake strange tongues, there come in they that are vnlearned, or they which beleeue not, will they not say, that ye are out of your wittes?

  • 1 Cor 13:13
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    13And nowe abideth faith, hope and loue, euen these three: but the chiefest of these is loue.

  • 1 Cor 12:30-31
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    30Are all doers of miracles? haue all the gifts of healing? doe all speake with tongues? doe all interprete?

    31But desire you the best giftes, and I will yet shewe you a more excellent way.

  • 1 Cor 16:14
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    14Let all your things be done in loue.

  • 1 Cor 12:1
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    1Now concerning spirituall giftes, brethren, I would not haue you ignorant.

  • 1 Cor 8:1
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    1And as touching things sacrificed vnto idols, wee knowe that wee all haue knowledge: knowledge puffeth vp, but loue edifieth.

  • 1 Cor 14:39
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    39Wherefore, brethren, couet to prophecie, and forbid not to speake languages.

  • 1 Cor 14:26-28
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    26What is to be done then, brethren? when ye come together, according as euery one of you hath a Psalme, or hath doctrine, or hath a tongue, or hath reuelation, or hath interpretation, let all things be done vnto edifying.

    27If any man speake a strange tongue, let it be by two, or at the most, by three, and that by course, and let one interprete.

    28But if there be no interpreter, let him keepe silence in the Church, which speaketh languages, and let him speake to himselfe, and to God.

  • Col 3:14
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    14And aboue all these thinges put on loue, which is the bond of perfectnes.

  • 2 Cor 8:8
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    8This say I not by commaundement, but because of the diligence of others: therefore prooue I the naturalnesse of your loue.

  • Heb 13:1
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    1Let brotherly loue continue.

  • 1 Cor 8:13
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    13Wherefore if meate offende my brother, I wil eate no flesh while the world standeth, that I may not offend my brother.

  • 1 John 3:18
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    18My litle children, let vs not loue in worde, neither in tongue onely, but in deede and in trueth.

  • John 13:35
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    35By this shall all men knowe that ye are my disciples, if ye haue loue one to another.

  • 2 Cor 12:11
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    11I was a foole to boast my selfe: yee haue compelled mee: for I ought to haue bene commended of you: for in nothing was I inferiour vnto the very chiefe Apostles, though I bee nothing.

  • 2 Pet 1:7
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    7And with godlines, brotherly kindnes: and with brotherly kindnes, loue.

  • 1 Cor 12:10
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    10And to another the operations of great workes: and to another, prophecie: and to another, the discerning of spirits: and to another, diuersities of tongues: and to another, the interpretation of tongues.

  • 1 Cor 13:11
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    11When I was a childe, I spake as a childe, I vnderstoode as a childe, I thought as a childe: but when I became a man, I put away childish thinges.

  • 1 John 4:20
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    20If any man say, I loue God, and hate his brother, he is a liar: for how can he that loueth not his brother whom he hath seene, loue God whom he hath not seene?