NEW TESTAMENT

1 Corinthians 13:1

The Holy Bible · English
All chapters

Read all chapter notes ↗

Bilingual reading
Text

Open an explanation beneath verses with notes. Your notes and highlights stay on this device.

1

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

ExplanationCommentary
EXPLANATION

Verse 1. A tinkling cymbal. Which may give notice, and be beneficial to others, but not to itself. Witham.—Without charity, both towards every individual, and especially towards the common body of the Church, none of the aforesaid gifts will be available. B.

Read all chapter notes
Read the whole chapter