New Testament · SCRIPTURE
1 Corinthians 13:3
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If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.
BSB text & permissions
And though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
KJV text & permissions
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.
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ASVAmerican 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.
ASV text & permissions
And if I should give away all my possessions, and if I should deliver up my body that I may boast, but have not love, I am profited nothing.
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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB
1 Corinthians 13
1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3 If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
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