# 1 Corinthians 13 ## 1 Corinthians 13:1 - [KJV] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become *as* sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. - [ASV] If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. - [YLT] If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; ### Notes on 1 Corinthians 13:1 - ## 1 Corinthians 13:2 - [KJV] And though I have *the gift of* prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. - [ASV] 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. - [YLT] and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing; ### Notes on 1 Corinthians 13:2 - ## 1 Corinthians 13:3 - [KJV] And though I bestow all my goods to feed *the poor*, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. - [ASV] 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. - [YLT] and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing. ### Notes on 1 Corinthians 13:3 - ## 1 Corinthians 13:4 - [KJV] Charity suffereth long, *and* is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, - [ASV] Love suffereth long, *and* is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, - [YLT] The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, ### Notes on 1 Corinthians 13:4 - ## 1 Corinthians 13:5 - [KJV] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; - [ASV] doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil; - [YLT] doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil, ### Notes on 1 Corinthians 13:5 - ## 1 Corinthians 13:6 - [KJV] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; - [ASV] rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth; - [YLT] rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth; ### Notes on 1 Corinthians 13:6 - ## 1 Corinthians 13:7 - [KJV] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. - [ASV] beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. - [YLT] all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth. ### Notes on 1 Corinthians 13:7 - ## 1 Corinthians 13:8 - [KJV] Charity 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. - [ASV] 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. - [YLT] The love doth never fail; and whether *there be* prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless; ### Notes on 1 Corinthians 13:8 - ## 1 Corinthians 13:9 - [KJV] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. - [ASV] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; - [YLT] for in part we know, and in part we prophecy; ### Notes on 1 Corinthians 13:9 - ## 1 Corinthians 13:10 - [KJV] But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. - [ASV] but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away. - [YLT] and when that which is perfect may come, then that which *is* in part shall become useless. ### Notes on 1 Corinthians 13:10 - ## 1 Corinthians 13:11 - [KJV] When 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. - [ASV] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things. - [YLT] When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe; ### Notes on 1 Corinthians 13:11 - ## 1 Corinthians 13:12 - [KJV] For 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. - [ASV] For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known. - [YLT] for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known; ### Notes on 1 Corinthians 13:12 - ## 1 Corinthians 13:13 - [KJV] And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these *is* charity. - [ASV] But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love. - [YLT] and now there doth remain faith, hope, love -- these three; and the greatest of these *is* love. ### Notes on 1 Corinthians 13:13 -