1 Coríntios 13

The Greatest Gift

1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have thegiftof*Matt. 7:22; 1 Cor. 12:8–10, 28; 14:1prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, *Matt. 17:20; 21:21; Mark 11:23; Luke 17:6so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And *Matt. 6:1, 2though I bestow all my goods to feed thepoor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

4 *Prov. 10:12; 17:9; 1 Thess. 5:14; (1 Pet. 4:8)Love suffers long and is *Eph. 4:32kind; love *Gal. 5:26does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, *1 Cor. 10:24; Phil. 2:4does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 *Ps. 10:3; Rom. 1:32does not rejoice in iniquity, but *2 John 4; 3 John 3rejoices in the truth; 7 *Rom. 15:1; Gal. 6:2; 2 Tim. 2:24bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never fails. But whether thereare prophecies, they will fail; whether thereare tongues, they will cease; whether thereis knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 *1 Cor. 8:2; 13:12For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For *(2 Cor. 3:18; 5:7); Phil. 3:12; James 1:23now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then *Gen. 32:30; Num. 12:8; Matt. 18:10; (1 John 3:2)face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.