Love: The Superior Way
1 If I speak human or angelic tongues 13:1 languages, also in v. 8 but do not have love, 13:1 Jn 13:35; 1Jn 4:7–12 I am a noisy gong 13:1 Mt 10:9 or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy 13:2 1Co 14:1,3–6,22–39; Eph 4:11; 1Th 5:20 and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can move mountains 13:2 Mt 17:20 but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give away all my possessions, and if I give over my body in order to boast 13:3 Other mss read body to be burned but do not have love, I gain nothing.
13 Now these three remain: faith, hope, 13:13 1Th 1:3 and love — but the greatest of these is love.