1Cor 13:2 | RWP | e4.org | The ecstatic gifts (verse ) are worthless. Equally so are the teaching gifts (prophecy, knowledge of mysteries, all knowledge). Crasis here in καν=κα εαν . Paul is not condemning these great gifts. He simply places love above them and essential to them. Equally futile is wonder-working faith "so as to remove mountains" ( ωστε ορη μεθιστανειν ) without love. This may have been a proverb or Paul may have known the words of Jesus ( ; ). I am nothing ( ουθεν ειμ ). Not ουθεις , nobody, but an absolute zero. This form in θ rather than δ ( ουδεν ) had a vogue for a while (Robertson, Grammar , p. 219).

‏ 1 Corinthians 13:2

The ecstatic gifts (verse 1) are worthless. Equally so are the teaching gifts (prophecy, knowledge of mysteries, all knowledge). Crasis here in καν=κα εαν. Paul is not condemning these great gifts. He simply places love above them and essential to them. Equally futile is wonder-working faith "so as to remove mountains" ( ωστε ορη μεθιστανειν ) without love. This may have been a proverb or Paul may have known the words of Jesus (Mt 17:20; 21:21).

I am nothing ( ουθεν ειμ ). Not ουθεις, nobody, but an absolute zero. This form in θ rather than δ ( ουδεν ) had a vogue for a while (Robertson, Grammar, p. 219).