1 Si yo tuviera elocuencia en lenguas humanas—incluso en lenguas angelicales—pero no tengo amor, sería solo como un metal ruidoso o címbalo que resuena. 2 Si profetizara, si conociera todos los misterios y tuviera todo conocimiento, y si pudiera tener una fe tal que pudiera mover montañas, pero no tengo amor, entonces nada soy. 3 Si pudiera donar todo lo que poseo a los pobres, o si me sacrificara para ser quemado como mártir, y no tengo amor, entonces no habría logrado nada. 4 El amor es paciente y amable. El amor no es celoso. El amor no es jactancioso. El amor no es orgulloso. 5 El amor no actúa de manera inapropiada ni insiste en salirse con la suya. El amor no es contencioso ni guarda registro de los errores. 6 El amor no se deleita en el mal, sino que se alegra en la verdad. 7 El amor nunca se rinde, sigue creyendo, mantiene la confianza, y espera con paciencia en todas las circunstancias. 8 El amor nunca falla. Las profecías se acabarán. Las lenguas se callarán. El conocimiento se volverá inútil. 9 Porque nuestro conocimiento y nuestra comprensión profética están incompletos. 10 Pero cuando esté completo, entonces lo que está incompleto desaparecerá. 11 Cuando era un niño, hablaba como niño, pensaba como niño y razonaba como niño. Pero cuando crecí dejé atrás las cosas de niño. 12 Ahora vemos como en un espejo con un reflejo borroso, pero entonces veremos cara a cara. Porque ahora solo tengo un conocimiento parcial, pero entonces conoceré por completo, tal como soy completamente conocido. 13 La confianza, la esperanza, y el amor duran para siempre, pero el más importante es el amor.
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Cross references (13)
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- 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)