1 Corinthians 13
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1#2Co 12:4If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I have become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2#Mt 17:20; 21:21If I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing.
4#Col 3:12; Pr 10:12Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love flaunts not itself and is not puffed up, 5#1Co 10:24; Php 2:21does not behave itself improperly, seeks not its own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil; 6#2Jn 1:4; Ro 1:32rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7#1Co 13:4bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
8Love never fails. But if there are prophecies, they shall fail; if there are tongues, they shall cease; and if there is knowledge, it shall vanish. 9#1Co 8:2; 13:12For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 10But when that which is perfect comes, then that which is imperfect shall pass away. 11When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, and I thought as a child. But when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12#2Co 5:7; 1Jn 3:2For now we see as through a glass, dimly, but then, face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know, even as I also am known.
13#Gal 5:6; 1Co 16:14; 1Pe 1:21So now abide faith, hope, and love, these three. But the greatest of these is love.
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1 Corinthians 13
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Love Is the Greatest of All
1If I speak in the languages of human beings or even of angels, but I don’t have love, I’m only a loud gong or a noisy cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can understand all the secret things of God and know everything about him, and if I have enough faith to move mountains, but I don’t have love, I’m nothing at all. 3If I give everything I have to the poor, and I endure so much hardship that I can brag about it, but I don’t have love, that doesn’t do me any good at all.
4Love is patient and kind. It doesn’t want what belongs to other people. It doesn’t brag, it isn’t proud, 5and it doesn’t treat other people with disrespect. Love doesn’t look out for its own interests. It doesn’t become angry easily. It doesn’t keep track of other people’s wrongs. 6Love takes no joy in bad things happening, but it’s full of joy when the truth prevails. 7Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always endures.
8Love never fails. But prophecies will end; unknown languages will go silent; knowledge will disappear. 9Now we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part. 10But when what is complete arrives, the things that are not complete will disappear. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, and I had the understanding of a child. But when I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12Now we see only a dim reflection of things, as if we were seeing them in a foggy mirror. But someday we will see clearly, face to face. Now I know in part; then I will know completely, just as God knows me completely.
13These three things will never end: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.
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