| New Living Translation | NET Bible |
| 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. | 1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. |
| 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. | 2And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am 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. | 3If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, but do not have love, I receive no benefit. |
| 4Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud | 4Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up. |
| 5or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. | 5It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful. |
| 6It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. | 6It is not glad about injustice, but rejoices in the truth. |
| 7Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. | 7It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. |
| 8Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever! | 8Love never ends. But if there are prophecies, they will be set aside; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be set aside. |
| 9Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture! | 9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, |
| 10But when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will become useless. | 10but when what is perfect comes, the partial will be set aside. |
| 11When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. | 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became an adult, I set aside childish ways. |
| 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. | 12For now we see in a mirror indirectly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known. |
| 13Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love. | 13And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love. |
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