1 Corinthians 13:1
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for 1 Corinthians 13:1 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
1 Corinthians 13:1 is a verse from the book of 1 Corinthians in the New Testament. The KJV reads: "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling..." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
1 Corinthians 13:1 — KJV
“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.”
— 1 Corinthians 13:1 (KJV)
1 Corinthians 13:1 in Context — About the Book of 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians is pastoral surgery on a gifted, divided, messy church — addressing factions, immorality, lawsuits, worship chaos, and doubts about resurrection. It contains the love chapter read at countless weddings and the Bible's fullest teaching on spiritual gifts and the resurrection body.
Cross-References for 1 Corinthians 13:1
“And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.”
Shares key themes with 1 Corinthians 13:1: men, sounding, cymbal
“I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.”
Shares key themes with 1 Corinthians 13:1: though, men, become
“Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto. covenant: or, testament”
Shares key themes with 1 Corinthians 13:1: though, speak, men
“In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.”
Shares key themes with 1 Corinthians 13:1: speak, tongues, men
“And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city. are here: Heb. are found iniquity: or, punishment”
Shares key themes with 1 Corinthians 13:1: men, angels
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