1 Corinthians 13
13
Love: The Superior Way
1If I speak human or angelic tongues#13:1 languages, also in v. 8 but do not have love,#Jn 13:35; 1Jn 4:7–12 I am a noisy 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 give away all my possessions, and if I give over my body in order to boast#13:3 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 arrogant,#1Co 4:6 5is not rude, is not self-seeking,#Mk 10:45; Php 2:4 is not irritable,#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 tongues, 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 only a reflection#13:12 Lit we see indirectly as in a mirror, 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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1 Corinthians 13
13
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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