If 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.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Corinthians 13:3 in context
1 Corinthians 13:1–6
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If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
2
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 don’t have love, I am nothing.
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If 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.
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Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
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doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
6
doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
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