1 Corinthians 13
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1Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.1If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.2If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing.
3And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.3If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.
4Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,4Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud
5Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;5or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.
6Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;6It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.
7Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.7Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
8Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.8Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever!
9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.9Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture!
10But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.10But when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will become useless.
11When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.11When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things.
12For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.12Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.
13And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.13Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.
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1 Corinthians 12
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