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: 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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