“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.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. 1 Corinthians 13 contains 13 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.