1 Corinthians 13
13
Love: The Superior Way
1If I speak human or angelic tongues#13:1 languages, also in v. 8 but do not have love,#Jn 13:35; 1Jn 4:7–12 I am a noisy gong#Mt 10:9 or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy#1Co 14:1,3–6,22–39; Eph 4:11; 1Th 5:20 and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can move mountains#Mt 17:20 but do not have love, I am nothing. 3And if I give away all my possessions, and if I give over my body in order to boast#13:3 Other mss read body to be burned but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4Love is patient,#1Th 5:14 love is kind. Love does not envy,#Nm 25:13; Gl 4:17 is not boastful, is not arrogant,#1Co 4:6 5is not rude, is not self-seeking,#Mk 10:45; Php 2:4 is not irritable,#Ac 17:16 and does not keep a record of wrongs. 6Love finds no joy in unrighteousness but rejoices in the truth.#Ps 119:142; Jn 8:14; 14:6 7It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures#Jms 1:12 all things.
8Love never ends.#Mt 7:25,27; Lk 6:49; 11:17; 13:4; 16:17; Ac 15:16; Heb 11:30; Rv 11:13; 16:19 But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. 9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, 10but when the perfect comes, the partial will come to an end. 11When 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 put aside childish things. 12For now we see only a reflection#13:12 Lit we see indirectly as in a mirror, but then face to face.#1Jn 3:2 Now I know in part, but then I will know fully,#Pr 2:6; Jn 17:3; 1Jn 4:8 as I am fully known.#1Co 8:3; Gl 4:9 13Now these three remain: faith, hope,#1Th 1:3 and love — but the greatest of these is love.
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1 Corinthians 13
13
1If I speak in the tongues#13:1 Or languages of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If 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. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,#13:3 Some manuscripts body to the flames but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8Love 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. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 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 put the ways of childhood behind me. 12For 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.
13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
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