I Corinthians 13
13
The Greatest Gift
1Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2And though I have the gift of #Matt. 7:22; 1 Cor. 12:8–10, 28; 14:1prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, #Matt. 17:20; 21:21; Mark 11:23; Luke 17:6so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3And #Matt. 6:1, 2though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
4#Prov. 10:12; 17:9; 1 Thess. 5:14; (1 Pet. 4:8)Love suffers long and is #Eph. 4:32kind; love #Gal. 5:26does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5does not behave rudely, #1 Cor. 10:24; Phil. 2:4does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6#Ps. 10:3; Rom. 1:32does not rejoice in iniquity, but #2 John 4; 3 John 3rejoices in the truth; 7#Rom. 15:1; Gal. 6:2; 2 Tim. 2:24bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9#1 Cor. 8:2; 13:12For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
11When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12For #(2 Cor. 3:18; 5:7); Phil. 3:12; James 1:23now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then #Gen. 32:30; Num. 12:8; Matt. 18:10; (1 John 3:2)face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
13And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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1 Corinthians 13
13
Love: The Superior Way
1If I speak human or angelic languages
but do not have love, # Jn 13:35; 1Jn 4:7-12
I am a sounding gong # Mt 10:9 or a clanging cymbal.
2If I have the gift of prophecy # 1Co 14:1,3-6,22-39; Eph 4:11; 1Th 5:20
and understand all mysteries
and all knowledge,
and if I have all faith
so that I can move mountains # Mt 17:20
but do not have love, I am nothing.
3And if I donate all my goods to feed the poor,
and if I give my body in order to boast # Other mss read body to be burned
but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4Love is patient, # 1Th 5:14 love is kind.
Love does not envy, # Nm 25:13; Gl 4:17
is not boastful, is not conceited, # 1Co 4:6
5does not act improperly,
is not selfish, # Mk 10:45; Php 2:4 is not provoked, # Ac 17:16
and does not keep a record of wrongs.
6Love finds no joy in unrighteousness
but rejoices in the truth. # Ps 119:142; Jn 8:14; 14:6
7It bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures # Jms 1:12 all things.
8Love never ends. # Mt 7:25,27; Lk 6:49; 11:17; 13:4; 16:17; Ac 15:16; Heb 11:30; Rv 11:13; 16:19
But as for prophecies,
they will come to an end;
as for languages, they will cease;
as for knowledge, it will come to an end.
9For we know in part,
and we prophesy in part.
10But when the perfect comes,
the partial will come to an end.
11When I was a child,
I spoke like a child,
I thought like a child,
I reasoned like a child.
When I became a man,
I put aside childish things.
12For now we see indistinctly, # Or indirectly as in a mirror, # Ancient mirrors were normally made out of polished metals and were not as clear as modern ones.
but then face to face. # 1Jn 3:2
Now I know in part,
but then I will know fully, # Pr 2:6; Jn 17:3; 1Jn 4:8
as I am fully known. # 1Co 8:3; Gl 4:9
13Now these three remain:
faith, hope, # 1Th 1:3 and love.
But the greatest of these is love.
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