1 Corinthians 13:1

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • 1 Tim 1:5 : 5 but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith;
  • 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
  • Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
  • Gal 5:22 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
  • 1 Cor 13:2-3 : 2 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. 3 If I dole out 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.
  • 1 Cor 13:8 : 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.
  • 1 Cor 14:6-8 : 6 But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with other languages, what would 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 didn't give a distinction in the sounds, how would it be known what is piped or harped? 8 For if the trumpet gave an uncertain sound, who would prepare himself for war?
  • 2 Cor 12:4 : 4 how 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 puffs up, but love builds up.
  • 1 Cor 12:16 : 16 If the ear would say, "Because I'm not the eye, I'm not part of the body," it's not therefore not part of the body.
  • 1 Cor 12:29-30 : 29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all miracle workers? 30 Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with various languages? Do all interpret?
  • Rom 14:15 : 15 Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.
  • Matt 25:45 : 45 "Then he will answer them, saying, 'Most certainly I tell you, inasmuch as you didn't do it to one of the least of these, you didn't do it to 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;

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  • 1 Cor 13:2-5
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    2 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.

    3 If I dole out 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.

    4 Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,

    5 doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

  • 1 Cor 13:7-8
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    7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

    8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

  • 1 Cor 14:1-23
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    1 Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

    2 For he who speaks in another language speaks not to men, but to God; for no one understands; but in the Spirit he speaks mysteries.

    3 But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.

    4 He who speaks in another language edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the assembly.

    5 Now I desire to have you all speak with other languages, but rather that you would prophesy. For he is greater who prophesies than he who speaks with other languages, unless he interprets, that the assembly may be built up.

    6 But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with other languages, what would 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 didn't give a distinction in the sounds, how would it be known what is piped or harped?

    8 For if the trumpet gave an uncertain sound, who would prepare himself for war?

    9 So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air.

    10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of sounds in the world, and none of them is without meaning.

    11 If then I don't know the meaning of the sound, I would be to him who speaks a foreigner, and he who speaks would be a foreigner to me.

    12 So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly.

    13 Therefore let him who speaks in another language pray that he may interpret.

    14 For if I pray in another language, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.

    15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

    16 Otherwise if you bless with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the "Amen" at your giving of thanks, seeing he doesn't know what you say?

    17 For you most certainly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up.

    18 I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all.

    19 However in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.

    20 Brothers, don't be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

    21 In the law it is written, "By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. Not even thus will they hear me, says the Lord."

    22 Therefore other languages are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving; but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe.

    23 If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won't they say that you are crazy?

  • 1 Cor 13:13
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    13 But now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.

  • 1 Cor 12:30-31
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    30 Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with various languages? Do all interpret?

    31 But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you.

  • 1 Cor 16:14
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    14 Let all that you do be done in love.

  • 1 Cor 12:1
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    1 Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don't want you to be ignorant.

  • 1 Cor 8:1
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    1 Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

  • 1 Cor 14:39
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    39 Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and don't forbid speaking with other languages.

  • 1 Cor 14:26-28
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    26 What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.

    27 If any man speaks in another language, let it be two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let one interpret.

    28 But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in the assembly, and let him speak to himself, and to God.

  • Col 3:14
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    14 Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

  • 2 Cor 8:8
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    8 I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

  • Heb 13:1
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    1 Let brotherly love continue.

  • 1 Cor 8:13
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    13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.

  • 1 John 3:18
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    18 My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

  • John 13:35
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    35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

  • 2 Cor 12:11
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    11 I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

  • 2 Pet 1:7
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    7 and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.

  • 1 Cor 12:10
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    10 and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds of languages; and to another the interpretation of languages.

  • 1 Cor 13:11
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    11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

  • 1 John 4:20
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    20 If a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn't love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?