1 Corinthians 13
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Holman Christian Standard BibleNew American Standard Bible 1995
1If I speak human or angelic languages but do not have love, I am a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 1If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2If I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. 2If 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 do not have love, I am nothing.
3And if I donate all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body in order to boast but do not have love, I gain nothing. 3And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind. Love does not envy, is not boastful, is not conceited, 4Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,
5does not act improperly, is not selfish, is not provoked, and does not keep a record of wrongs. 5does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,
6Love finds no joy in unrighteousness but rejoices in the truth. 6does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
7It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for languages, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. 8Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away.
9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part;
10But when the perfect comes, the partial will come to an end. 10but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.
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. 11When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.
12For now we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, as I am fully known. 12For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.
13Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love. 13But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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1 Corinthians 12
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