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1 Corinthians 13 Parallel Bible Translations
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| 1 | If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; | If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. | 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. | |
| 2 | and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and 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. | 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. | |
| 3 | and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited 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. | 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. | |
| 4 | The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, | Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant | Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. | |
| 5 | doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil, | or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; | It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. | |
| 6 | rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth; | it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. | Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. | |
| 7 | all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth. | Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. | It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. | |
| 8 | The love doth never fail; and whether there be prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless; | Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. | 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. | |
| 9 | for in part we know, and in part we prophecy; | For we know in part and we prophesy in part, | For we know in part and we prophesy in part, | |
| 10 | and when that which is perfect may come, then that which is in part shall become useless. | but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. | but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. | |
| 11 | When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe; | 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. | 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. | |
| 12 | for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was 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. | 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. | |
| 13 | and now there doth remain faith, hope, love -- these three; and the greatest of these is love. | So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. | And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. | |
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