1 Corinthians 13:2 (WEB)
If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.
Catechism · 1
“Whatever my privilege, service, or even virtue, "if I . . . have not charity, I gain nothing."” — Catechism footnote: 1 Cor 13:1-4.
Fathers and councils · 21
Irenaeus of Lyons
“…there shall remain “faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of all is love;” and that apart from the love of God, neither knowledge avails anything, nor the understanding of mysteries, nor faith, nor prophecy, but that without love all are hollow and vain; moreover, that love makes man perfect; and that he…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 2.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XI.12Conference XI
“For “whether there be prophecies, they shall fail, whether there be tongues, they shall cease, whether there be knowledge, it shall be destroyed,” but “love never faileth,” and without it not only those most excellent kinds of gifts, but even the glory of martyrdom itself will fail.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xii. 31; xiii. 1–8.
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Augustine of Hippo
“But the word of knowledge, wherein are contained all sacraments, which are varied in their periods like the moon, and the other conceptions of gifts, which are successively reckoned up as stars, inasmuch as they come short…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 2. The Authorized Version and the Vulgate render more correctly, “mysteries.” From Palmer (see p. 118, note 3, above), we learn that “the Fathers…
Read the whole comment“How many things he hath enumerated!” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 1–3.
Read the whole comment“Hear the Apostle: “If I know all mysteries, and have all faith, so that I can remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 2.
Read the whole comment“…can remove mountains, he is nothing; and though he bestow all his goods to feed the poor, and though he give his body to be burned, it profiteth him nothing.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 1–3
Read the whole comment““If he speak with the tongues of men and of angels; if he knew all mysteries, if he have all faith, so as to remove mountains, if he distribute all his goods to the poor, if he give his body to be burned, and have not charity; it is nothing; it profiteth him nothing.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 1–3.
Read the whole comment“And if I distribute all my substance, and if I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 1–3.
Read the whole comment““Though,” he saith, “I should give my body to be burnt;” and that, too, for the name of Christ; but since there are many who do this boastfully, not with charity, therefore, “Though I should give my body to be burnt, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 2, 3.
Read the whole comment“And though I should distribute all my goods to the poor, and though I should give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 1–3.
Read the whole comment“And though I distribute all my goods to the poor, and give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 1–3.
Read the whole comment“…the giving of their body to the flames: but because destitute of charity, they only tinkle like cymbals; they are nothing, and by nothing are they profited.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 1–3.
Read the whole comment“…they could remove mountains, they are nothing; and though they distributed all their substance, and gave their body to be burnt, it profiteth them nothing.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 1–3.
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John Chrysostom
“And though I have faith so as to remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.” ( 1 Cor. xiii. 1, 2.)” — the author cites it
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
“Some think that the faith that is compared to a grain of mustard-seed is a little faith, whereas the Apostle says, “If I shall have such faith that I could remove mountains.” [1 Cor 13:2] The faith therefore which is compared to a grain of mustard-seed is a great faith.” — the author cites it
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“But if this be so, that very thing which the Lord desired to prove would not be established, namely, that neither faith nor miracles avail ought where there is not a good life; as Paul also declares, “If I have faith that I may remove mountains, but have not charity, I am nothing.” [1 Cor 13:2]” — the author cites it
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Basil the Great
“And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burnt and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 1–3.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Charity never faileth.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 2–5, 7, 8.
Read the whole comment“Charity shall never fail.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xiii. 2–8.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Such were the apostles, in whose case it is said that “faith removed mountains and transplanted trees.”” — editor's note: Matt. xvii. 20; Luke xvii. 6; 1 Cor. xiii. 2.
Read the whole comment“Although each of us is his own vineyard and labourer.” — editor's note: See Matt. xx. 21. Mark xi. 23; 1 Cor. xiii. 2, etc.
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Cross-references · 15
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XV.18.
Cited together in Letters Letter 204.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XV.18.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 76.
Cited together in Letters Letter 204.
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 17:19–21 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Letters Letter 204.
Cited together in Letters Letter 204.
Cited together in Letters Letter 204.
Cited together in Letters Letter 204.
Cited together in Letters Letter 204.
Cited together in Letters Letter 204.
Cited together in Letters Letter 204.
Cited together in Letters Letter 204.
Cited together in Letters Letter 204.