1 Corinthians 13 - EasyEnglish Bible 2024（EASY）

Chapter 13Love is God's most important gift to his people

1I may be able to speak many different languages that people or angels speak. But that is worth nothing if I do not love other people. I would only be making a loud noise, like someone who hits a metal cymbal.

2I may be able to speak messages from God. I may understand all God's secret things, and I may know all the facts. I may have great faith so that I trust God to move mountains. But I am nothing if I do not love other people.

3I may give all my things to poor people. I may let other people take my body to burn it. But that would not help me if I do not love others.

4If I love people, I will be patient. I will be kind. I will not be jealous of other people. I will not be proud or boast.

5If I love people, I will be polite. I will not just want to please myself. I will not quickly become angry. If someone does a wrong thing against me, I will not keep it in my thoughts.

6If I love people, I will not be happy when wicked things happen. Instead, I will be happy when things happen that are right and true.

7If I love people, I will always accept their problems. I will always believe them. I will always hope for what is best. I will always be patient in any kind of trouble.

8Love will always continue. The gift to speak messages from God will not always be necessary. The gift to speak in different languages will stop one day. The gift to know special things will not always be necessary.

9At this time, we know only a part of everything. We can only speak a part of God's whole message.

10But a time will come when everything becomes complete. When God does that, we will not need the small bits that we have now.

11When I was a child, I talked like a child. My thoughts were a child's thoughts. I understood things in a way that a child understands them. But now that I have become a man, I have stopped being like a child.

12At this time, we see things as if we were looking at them in a mirror. What we see now is not clear. But the time will come when we do not need a mirror. We will see everything clearly. Now we know only a part of what is true. But then we will know everything completely, as God knows us completely.

13At this time there are three things that continue. We have faith to trust God. We have hope to receive his good things. We have love for other people. But the most important of these things is love.