1 Corinthians 13:2

Prophecy, knowledge of all mysteries, and mountain-moving faith amount to nothing without love. The gift-bearer himself is nothing apart from love.

Cross-references · 31

• 1 Jn 4:8He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
• 1 Cor 13:3If I dole out 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.
• 1 Jn 4:20–21If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
• Matt 17:20He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.
• Matt 21:21Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and don’t doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it would be done.
• 1 Cor 16:22If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. Come, Lord!
• 1 Cor 12:8–10For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;
• 1 Cor 13:1If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
• 1 Cor 14:1–2Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
• Gal 5:16But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.
• Eph 3:4by which, when you read, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ;
• Col 1:26the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,
• 1 Cor 7:19Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
• Mark 11:22–23Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God.
• 1 Cor 12:28God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.
• Gal 6:3For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
• 1 Cor 14:6–9But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with other languages, what would I profit you, unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching?
• Matt 7:22–23Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’
• Gal 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
• Luke 17:5–6The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”
• 1 Tim 3:16Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.
• Matt 21:19Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, “Let there be no fruit from you forever!” Immediately the fig tree withered away.
• Num 24:15–24He took up his parable, and said, “Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eyes are open says;
• Rom 16:25—
• Matt 13:11He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
• 1 Cor 4:1So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.
• Rom 11:25For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
• Eph 6:19on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,
• 1 Cor 8:4Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
• 1 Cor 14:39Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and don’t forbid speaking with other languages.
• 2 Cor 12:11I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

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