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Excelencia del amor

13 Si yo hablara lenguas humanas(A) y angélicas(B), pero no tengo amor, he llegado a ser como metal que resuena o címbalo que retiñe(C). Y si tuviera el don de profecía(D), y entendiera todos los misterios(E) y todo conocimiento(F), y si tuviera toda la fe(G) como para trasladar montañas(H), pero no tengo amor, nada soy. Y si diera todos mis bienes(I) para dar de comer a los pobres, y si entregara mi cuerpo para ser quemado[a](J), pero no tengo amor, de nada me aprovecha.

El amor es paciente, es bondadoso(K). El amor no tiene envidia[b](L); el amor no es jactancioso, no es arrogante(M). No se porta indecorosamente; no busca lo suyo(N), no se irrita, no toma en cuenta el mal recibido(O). El amor no se regocija de la injusticia(P), sino que se alegra con la verdad(Q). Todo lo sufre[c], todo lo cree, todo lo espera, todo lo soporta(R).

El amor nunca deja de ser. Pero si hay dones de profecía[d](S), se acabarán; si hay lenguas(T), cesarán; si hay conocimiento, se acabará. Porque en parte conocemos(U), y en parte profetizamos; 10 pero cuando venga lo perfecto, lo incompleto se acabará. 11 Cuando yo era niño, hablaba como niño, pensaba como niño, razonaba como niño; pero cuando llegué a ser hombre, dejé las cosas de niño.

12 Porque ahora vemos por un espejo, veladamente[e](V), pero entonces veremos cara a cara(W). Ahora conozco en parte, pero entonces conoceré plenamente, como he sido conocido(X). 13 Y ahora permanecen la fe, la esperanza, el amor: estos tres; pero el mayor de ellos es el amor(Y).

Footnotes

  1. 13:3 Los mss. más antiguos dicen: para gloriarme.
  2. 13:4 O no es celoso.
  3. 13:7 O cubre.
  4. 13:8 Lit. profecías.
  5. 13:12 Lit. como un enigma.

13 If I speak in the tongues[a](A) of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy(B) and can fathom all mysteries(C) and all knowledge,(D) and if I have a faith(E) that can move mountains,(F) but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor(G) and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b](H) but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient,(I) love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.(J) It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking,(K) it is not easily angered,(L) it keeps no record of wrongs.(M) Love does not delight in evil(N) but rejoices with the truth.(O) It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.(P)

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies,(Q) they will cease; where there are tongues,(R) they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part(S) and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes,(T) what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood(U) behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror;(V) then we shall see face to face.(W) Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.(X)

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.(Y) But the greatest of these is love.(Z)

Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 13:1 Or languages
  2. 1 Corinthians 13:3 Some manuscripts body to the flames

The Way of Love

13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have (A)prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, (B)so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. (C)If I give away all I have, and (D)if I deliver up my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, I gain nothing.

(E)Love is patient and (F)kind; love (G)does not envy or boast; it (H)is not arrogant or rude. It (I)does not insist on its own way; it (J)is not irritable or resentful;[b] it (K)does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but (L)rejoices with the truth. (M)Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, (N)endures all things.

Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For (O)we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but (P)when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For (Q)now we see in a mirror dimly, but (R)then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as (S)I have been fully known.

13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 13:3 Some manuscripts deliver up my body [to death] that I may boast
  2. 1 Corinthians 13:5 Greek irritable and does not count up wrongdoing