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 speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing 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 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.
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 give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
6Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;6Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
7Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.7It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
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.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.
9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.9For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.10but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.
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 talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.
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 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.
13And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.13And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
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1 Corinthians 12
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