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1 Corinthians 13 (New International Version)

1 If I speak in the tonguesa1 of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy2 and can fathom all mysteries3 and all knowledge,4 and if I have a faith5 that can move mountains,6 but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor7 and surrender my body to the flames,b8 but have not love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient,9 love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.10 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking,11 it is not easily angered,12 it keeps no record of wrongs.13 6 Love does not delight in evil14 but rejoices with the truth.15 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.16 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies,17 they will cease; where there are tongues,18 they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part19 and we prophesy in part, 10 but when perfection comes,20 the imperfect disappears. 11 When 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 childish ways21 behind me. 12 Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror;22 then we shall see face to face.23 Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.24 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.25 But the greatest of these is love.26
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a. 1 Corinthians 13:1 - Or "languages"
b. 1 Corinthians 13:3 - Some early manuscripts "body that I may boast"
1. 1 Corinthians 13:1 - ver 8; S Mk 16:17
2. 1 Corinthians 13:2 - ver 8; S Eph 4:11; S Ac 11:27
3. 1 Corinthians 13:2 - 1Co 14:2
4. 1 Corinthians 13:2 - S 2Co 8:7
5. 1 Corinthians 13:2 - 1Co 12:9
6. 1 Corinthians 13:2 - Mt 17:20; 21:21
7. 1 Corinthians 13:3 - Lk 19:8; S Ac 2:45; Mt 6:2
8. 1 Corinthians 13:3 - Da 3:28
9. 1 Corinthians 13:4 - 1Th 5:14
10. 1 Corinthians 13:4 - 1Co 5:2
11. 1 Corinthians 13:5 - S 1Co 10:24
12. 1 Corinthians 13:5 - S Mt 5:22
13. 1 Corinthians 13:5 - Job 14:16,17; Pr 10:12; 17:9; 1Pe 4:8
14. 1 Corinthians 13:6 - 2Th 2:12
15. 1 Corinthians 13:6 - 2Jn 4; 3Jn 3,4
16. 1 Corinthians 13:7 - ver 8,13
17. 1 Corinthians 13:8 - ver 2
18. 1 Corinthians 13:8 - ver 1
19. 1 Corinthians 13:9 - ver 12; S 1Co 8:2
20. 1 Corinthians 13:10 - Php 3:12
21. 1 Corinthians 13:11 - Ps 131:2
22. 1 Corinthians 13:12 - Job 26:14; 36:26
23. 1 Corinthians 13:12 - Ge 32:30; Job 19:26; 2Co 5:7; 1Jn 3:2
24. 1 Corinthians 13:12 - 1Co 8:3; Gal 4:9
25. 1 Corinthians 13:13 - Ro 5:2-5; Gal 5:5,6; Eph 4:2-5; Col 1:4,5; 1Th 1:3; 5:8; Heb 6:10-12
26. 1 Corinthians 13:13 - Mt 22:37-40; 1Co 16:14; Gal 5:6; 1Jn 4:7-12,16
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