1 Corinthians 13
13 verses
Love (agapē) is the surpassing gift and the way Paul shows them. If he speaks in the tongues of mortals and angels but has not love, he is a noisy gong or clanging cymbal; if he has prophetic powers and understands all mysteries and all knowledge, and if he has all faith so as to remove mountains, but has not love, he is nothing; if he gives away all his possessions and surrenders his body, but has not love, he gains nothing. Love is patient, is kind, does not envy or boast, is not arrogant or rude, does not insist on its own way, is not irritable or resentful, does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices in the truth, bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends; prophecy will pass away, tongues will cease, knowledge will pass away, for we know in part and prophesy in part. When the complete comes, the partial will pass away, and we will see face to face rather than in a mirror dimly; we will know fully as we have been fully known. For now, faith, hope, and love abide, these three, and the greatest of these is love.
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Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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And 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.
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And 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.
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Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
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Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
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Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
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Charity 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.
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For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
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But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
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When 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.
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For 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.
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And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
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