1 Corinthians 13
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1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging 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.
2If 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.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.
3If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain 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.
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.4Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud
5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.5or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.
6Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.6It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.
7It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.7Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
8Love 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.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 the perfect comes, the partial passes away.10But when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will become useless.
11When 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.11When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things.
12Now 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.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 these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.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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