1 Corinthians 13:1

WEB

¹If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

KJV

¹Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

BSB

¹If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.

FBV

¹If I were to have eloquence in human languages—even the language of angels—but have no love, then I would only be an echoing gong or a clashing cymbal.

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Extra References

1 Timothy 1:5

⁵But the goal of this command is love from a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith,

1 Peter 4:8

⁸And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Galatians 5:22

²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

1 Corinthians 13:8

⁸Love 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.

Galatians 5:6

⁶For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision amounts to anything, but faith working through love.

²If 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. ³If I give away 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 Corinthians 8:1

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

2 Peter 2:18

¹⁸For, 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;

Matthew 25:45

⁴⁵“Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’

1 Corinthians 14:6-8

⁶But 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? ⁷Even lifeless things that make a sound, whether pipe or harp, if they didn’t give a distinction in the sounds, how would it be known what is piped or harped? ⁸For if the trumpet gave an uncertain sound, who would prepare himself for war?