1 Corinthians · Literal Standard Version
1 Corinthians 13 Literal Standard Version
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1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of messengers, and do not have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal;
1 SI yo hablase lenguas humanas y angélicas, y no tengo caridad, vengo á ser [como] metal que resuena, ó címbalo que retiñe.
1 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 and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, and do not have 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.
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.
3 and if I give away all my goods to feed others, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and do not have love, I am profited nothing.
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.
3 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.
4 Love is long-suffering, it is kind, love does not envy, love does not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,
4 La caridad es sufrida, es benigna; la caridad no tiene envidia, la caridad no hace sinrazón, no se ensancha;
4 Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
5 does not act unseemly, does not seek its own things, is not provoked, does not impute evil,
5 No es injuriosa, no busca lo suyo, no se irrita, no piensa el mal;
5 doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
6 [does] not rejoice over unrighteousness, and rejoices with the truth;
6 No se huelga de la injusticia, mas se huelga de la verdad;
6 doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
7 it bears all things, it believes all, it hopes all, it endures all.
7 Todo lo sufre, todo lo cree, todo lo espera, todo lo soporta.
7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
8 Love never fails; and whether [there be] prophecies, they will become useless; whether tongues, they will cease; whether knowledge, it will become useless;
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;
8 Love 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.
9 for we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
9 Porque en parte conocemos, y en parte profetizamos;
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part;
10 and when that which is perfect may come, then that which [is] in part will become useless.
10 Mas cuando venga lo que es perfecto, entonces lo que es en parte será quitado.
10 but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.
11 When I was a child, I was speaking as a child, I was thinking as a child, I was reasoning as a child, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the 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.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.
12 for we now see obscurely through a mirror, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I will fully know, as I was also known;
12 Ahora vemos por espejo, en obscuridad; mas entonces [veremos] cara á cara: ahora conozco en parte; mas entonces conoceré como soy conocido.
12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.
13 and now there remains 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.
13 But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
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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What the Fathers said
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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)