1 If I were to have eloquence in human languages—even the language of angels—but have no love, then I would only be an echoing gong or a clashing cymbal. 2 If I were to speak prophecies, to know every secret mystery and be completely knowledgeable, and if I were able to have so much faith I could move mountains, but have no love, then I am nothing. 3 If I were to donate everything I own to the poor, or if I were to sacrifice myself to be burned as a martyr, and have no love, then I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous. Love is not boastful. Love is not proud. 5 Love does not act improperly, or insist on having its own way. Love is not argumentative and doesn't keep a record of wrongs. 6 Love takes no delight in evil but celebrates the truth. 7 Love never gives up, keeps on trusting, stays confident, and remains patient whatever happens. 8 Love never fails. Prophecies will come to an end. Tongues will become silent. Knowledge will become useless. 9 For our knowledge and our prophetic understanding are incomplete. 10 But when completeness comes, then what is incomplete disappears. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I grew up I left behind such childlike ways. 12 At the moment we peer into a mirror's dim reflection, but then we shall see face to face. For now I only have partial knowledge, but then I shall know completely, just as I am completely known. 13 Trust, hope, and love last forever—but the most important is love.
1 Corintios · Free Bible Version (Versión Biblia Libre en inglés)
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Referencias cruzadas (13)
Pasajes relacionados con cada versículo, del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, tal como los reúnen y ordenan los lectores de OpenBible.info.
- 1 1 Timoteo 1:5; 1 Pedro 4:8; Gálatas 5:22; 1 Corintios 13:8; Gálatas 5:6
- 2 1 Juan 4:8; 1 Corintios 13:3; 1 Juan 4:20–21; Mateo 17:20; Mateo 21:21
- 3 Santiago 2:14–17; Juan 15:13; Mateo 23:5; Mateo 6:1–4; Mateo 7:22–23
- 4 1 Pedro 4:8; Efesios 4:32; Gálatas 5:21–22; Proverbios 10:12; Colosenses 3:12
- 5 1 Corintios 10:24; Filipenses 2:3–5; 1 Juan 3:16–17; Santiago 1:19; Filipenses 2:21
- 6 Romanos 12:9; 3 Juan 3–4; 2 Juan 4; Romanos 1:32; 2 Tesalonicenses 2:12
- 7 1 Pedro 4:8; 1 Corintios 13:4; 1 Pedro 2:24; 2 Timoteo 2:24; Proverbios 10:12
- 8 1 Corintios 13:13; 1 Corintios 13:1–2; Gálatas 5:6; Hechos 2:4; 1 Corintios 13:10
- 9 Colosenses 2:2–3; Efesios 3:18–19; 1 Corintios 2:9; Salmo 139:6; 1 Corintios 13:12
- 10 1 Corintios 13:12; Isaías 60:19–20; 2 Corintios 5:7–8; Isaías 24:23; Apocalipsis 22:4–5
- 11 1 Corintios 14:20; 1 Corintios 3:1–2; Gálatas 4:1; Eclesiastés 11:10
- 12 1 Juan 3:2; 2 Corintios 3:18; 1 Corintios 13:9–10; Filipenses 3:12; Apocalipsis 22:4
- 13 1 Corintios 16:14; Colosenses 3:14; 1 Juan 4:7–18; 1 Corintios 13:1–8; Gálatas 5:6
Referencias cruzadas: OpenBible.info (CC BY), tomadas sobre todo del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (dominio público). · Fuentes y licencias
Lo que dijeron los Padres
Pasajes de los Padres de la Iglesia que comentan o citan este capítulo, tal como aparecen en la edición de Schaff (traducciones inglesas del siglo XIX, de dominio público). Los textos están en inglés.
Cómo se eligieron
«Comentario» es el comienzo de una homilía o exposición sobre este capítulo (homilías de san Juan Crisóstomo; tratados, sermones y comentarios a los Salmos de san Agustín). «Cita» es una frase en la que las notas de la propia edición identifican la cita de un versículo de este capítulo; solo se conserva si el texto coincide con el versículo. Solo se usan obras de autoría segura. Los Salmos siguen la numeración hebrea (Agustín usa la de los Setenta: su Salmo 50 es aquí el 51).
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 …
Leer en contexto · 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.
Leer en contexto · 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.
Leer en contexto · 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.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)