Passage
And 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 do not have love, I am nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:2 (LSB)
Nearby Context
1 Corinthians 13:1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:2 And 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 do not have love, I am nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:3 And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:4 Love is patient, love is kind, is not jealous, does not brag, is not puffed up;
Study Lenses
The verse centers on "faith", "gift", "prophecy", "mysteries", "knowledge", "remove", "mountains", and "love". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "faith" and "gift", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.
The nearby context moves from verse 1's "If I speak with the tongues of..." into verse 3's "And if I give all my possessions...", so "faith" and "gift" belong inside that flow. In 1 Corinthians context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.
A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "faith" and "gift" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.