1 Corinthians 13 (New Living Translation)
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If I could speak in any language in heaven or on earth a but didn't love others, I would only be making meaningless noise like a loud gong or a clanging cymbal.
2
If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I knew all the mysteries of the future and knew everything about everything, but didn't love others, what good would I be? And if I had the gift of faith so that I could speak to a mountain and make it move, without love I would be no good to anybody.
3
If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; b but if I didn't love others, I would be of no value whatsoever.
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Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud
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or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged.
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It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.
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Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
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Love will last forever, but prophecy and speaking in unknown languages c and special knowledge will all disappear.
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Now we know only a little, and even the gift of prophecy reveals little!
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But when the end comes, these special gifts will all disappear.
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It's like this: When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child does. But when I grew up, I put away childish things.
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Now we see things imperfectly as in a poor mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. d All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God knows me now.
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There are three things that will endure – faith, hope, and love – and the greatest of these is love.
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a.
1 Corinthians 13:1 - Greek in tongues of people and angels.
b.
1 Corinthians 13:3 - Some manuscripts read and even gave my body to be burned.
c.
1 Corinthians 13:8 - Or in tongues.
d.
1 Corinthians 13:12 - Greek see face to face.