1 Corinthians 13:3

American Standard Version

And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.

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1 Corinthians 13:3 in other translations

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.

1 Corinthians 13:3 · World English Bible

1 Corinthians 13:3 in context

  1. 1If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
  2. 2And 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.
  3. 3And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
  4. 4Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
  5. 5doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;

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