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The Superior Way of Love

13 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels
but have not love,
    I have become a noisy gong
    or a clanging cymbal.

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 have not love,
    I am nothing.

If I give away all that I own
and if I hand over my body so I might boast[a]
but have not love,
    I gain nothing.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 13:3 Other mss. say be burned.