First Epistle to the Corinthians, Chapter 13
Paul
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- 1 corinthiAnS 13 AmericAn StAndArd VerSion of the holy BiBle
1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love,
I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
2 And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge;
and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3 And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be
burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
4 Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not;
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own,
is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;
6 Rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8 Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away;
whether there be tongues, they shall cease;
whether there be knowledge, it shall be done away.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
10 But when that which is perfect is come,
that which is in part shall be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child:
now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.
12 For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part;
but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known.
13 But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
