---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: 1 Corinthians from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 13
verse_count: 13
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), 1 Corinthians, chap. 13, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# 1 Corinthians 13

*Of faith, hope, perfection, and charity.*

**1** 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.
**2** And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
**3** And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
**4** Charity suffereth long, and is kind charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
**5** Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
**6** Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
**7** Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
**8** Charity never faileth; but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
**9** For we know in part, and we pro'phesy in part.
**10** But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
**11** When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
**12** For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face; now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
**13** And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.