1 Corinthians · Bible in Basic English
1 Corinthians 13 Bible in Basic English
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1 If I make use of the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am like sounding brass, or a loud-tongued bell.
1 SI yo hablase lenguas humanas y angélicas, y no tengo caridad, vengo á ser [como] metal que resuena, ó címbalo que retiñe.
2 And if I have a prophet's power, and have knowledge of all secret things; and if I have all faith, by which mountains may be moved from their place, but have not love, I am nothing.
2 Y si tuviese profecía, y entendiese todos los misterios y toda ciencia; y si tuviese toda la fe, de tal manera que traspasase los montes, y no tengo caridad, nada soy.
3 And if I give all my goods to the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it is of no profit to me.
3 Y si repartiese toda mi hacienda para dar de comer [á pobres], y si entregase mi cuerpo para ser quemado, y no tengo caridad, de nada me sirve.
4 Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride;
4 La caridad es sufrida, es benigna; la caridad no tiene envidia, la caridad no hace sinrazón, no se ensancha;
5 Love's ways are ever fair, it takes no thought for itself; it is not quickly made angry, it takes no account of evil;
5 No es injuriosa, no busca lo suyo, no se irrita, no piensa el mal;
6 It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but has joy in what is true;
6 No se huelga de la injusticia, mas se huelga de la verdad;
7 Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things.
7 Todo lo sufre, todo lo cree, todo lo espera, todo lo soporta.
8 Though the prophet's word may come to an end, tongues come to nothing, and knowledge have no more value, love has no end.
8 La caridad nunca deja de ser: mas las profecías se han de acabar, y cesarán las lenguas, y la ciencia ha de ser quitada;
9 For our knowledge is only in part, and the prophet's word gives only a part of what is true:
9 Porque en parte conocemos, y en parte profetizamos;
10 But when that which is complete is come, then that which is in part will be no longer necessary.
10 Mas cuando venga lo que es perfecto, entonces lo que es en parte será quitado.
11 When I was a child, I made use of a child's language, I had a child's feelings and a child's thoughts: now that I am a man, I have put away the things of a child.
11 Cuando yo era niño, hablaba como niño, pensaba como niño, juzgaba como niño; mas cuando ya fuí hombre hecho, dejé lo que era de niño.
12 For now we see things in a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now my knowledge is in part; then it will be complete, even as God's knowledge of me.
12 Ahora vemos por espejo, en obscuridad; mas entonces [veremos] cara á cara: ahora conozco en parte; mas entonces conoceré como soy conocido.
13 But now we still have faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
13 Y ahora permanecen la fe, la esperanza, y la caridad, estas tres: empero la mayor de ellas es la caridad.
Cross references (13)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 1 Timothy 1:5; 1 Peter 4:8; Galatians 5:22; 1 Corinthians 13:8; Galatians 5:6
- 2 1 John 4:8; 1 Corinthians 13:3; 1 John 4:20–21; Matthew 17:20; Matthew 21:21
- 3 James 2:14–17; John 15:13; Matthew 23:5; Matthew 6:1–4; Matthew 7:22–23
- 4 1 Peter 4:8; Ephesians 4:32; Galatians 5:21–22; Proverbs 10:12; Colossians 3:12
- 5 1 Corinthians 10:24; Philippians 2:3–5; 1 John 3:16–17; James 1:19; Philippians 2:21
- 6 Romans 12:9; 3 John 3–4; 2 John 4; Romans 1:32; 2 Thessalonians 2:12
- 7 1 Peter 4:8; 1 Corinthians 13:4; 1 Peter 2:24; 2 Timothy 2:24; Proverbs 10:12
- 8 1 Corinthians 13:13; 1 Corinthians 13:1–2; Galatians 5:6; Acts 2:4; 1 Corinthians 13:10
- 9 Colossians 2:2–3; Ephesians 3:18–19; 1 Corinthians 2:9; Psalm 139:6; 1 Corinthians 13:12
- 10 1 Corinthians 13:12; Isaiah 60:19–20; 2 Corinthians 5:7–8; Isaiah 24:23; Revelation 22:4–5
- 11 1 Corinthians 14:20; 1 Corinthians 3:1–2; Galatians 4:1; Ecclesiastes 11:10
- 12 1 John 3:2; 2 Corinthians 3:18; 1 Corinthians 13:9–10; Philippians 3:12; Revelation 22:4
- 13 1 Corinthians 16:14; Colossians 3:14; 1 John 4:7–18; 1 Corinthians 13:1–8; Galatians 5:6
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Thus, whereas he had showed, that both faith and knowledge and prophecy and tongues and gifts and healing and a perfect life and martyrdom, if love be absent, are no great advantage; of necessity he next makes an outline of its matchless beauty, adorning its image with the parts of virtue as with a sort of colors, and putting together …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 12 (1889)
As the apostle has said on this point, that, when other things have been done away, then these three, "faith, hope, and charity, shall endure." For faith, which has respect to our Master, endures unchangeably, assuring us that there is but one true God, and that we should truly love Him for ever, seeing that He alone is our Father; …
Of Thy eternal life I was now certain, although I had seen it "through a glass darkly." Yet I no longer doubted that there was an incorruptible substance, from which was derived all other substance; nor did I now desire to be more certain of Thee, but more stedfast in Thee.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
"For when," saith He, "that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away:" even as it befell the old law through the new.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
Thus much we will hear Paul say about it, that we know in part and we prophesy in part. This and the like to this are the confessions of one who is not rude in knowledge, who threatens to give proof of Christ speaking in him, the great doctor and champion of the truth.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)