1 Corinthians 13
Text — King James Version (1611)
13:1Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
13:2And 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.
13:3And 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.
13:4Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
13:5Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
13:6Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
13:7Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
13:8Charity 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.
13:9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
13:10But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
13:11When 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.
13:12For 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.
13:13And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
Works discussing this passage
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- Clement of Alexandria — Paedagogus (The Instructor) curated
- Augustine of Hippo — On Christian Doctrine curated
Cited in the Fathers’ own texts
- Augustine of Hippo — City of God cited in text — How Different the Uncertainty of the New Academy is from the Certainty of the Christian Faith.
- Augustine of Hippo — Confessions cited in text — He, Now Given to Divine Things, and Yet Entangled by the Lusts of Love, Consults Simplicianus in Reference to the Renewing of His Mind.
- Jerome — Letters cited in text — (Jerome)
- Clement of Alexandria — Paedagogus (The Instructor) cited in text — The Name Children Does Not Imply Instruction in Elementary Principles
- Clement of Alexandria — Stromata cited in text — The Blessedness of the Martyr
- Gregory of Nazianzus — Select Orations cited in text — Oration 2 (Gregory Nazianzen)
- Ambrose of Milan — Exposition of the Christian Faith cited in text
- Ambrose of Milan — On the Duties of the Clergy (De Officiis) cited in text
- Augustine of Hippo — On Christian Doctrine cited in text — He Who is Mature in Faith, Hope and Love, Needs Scripture No Longer.
- Origen — Commentary on the Gospel of John (partial: Books I, II, IV, V, VI, X) cited in text — Heracleon's View of the Voice, and of John the Baptist.