1 Corinthians 13 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth. it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, For we know in part and we prophesy in part, For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away. but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways. When 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 gave up childish ways.
12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love. So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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