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1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.
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1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
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2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith so that I could remove mountains, but have not charity, I am nothing.
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2 If 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 have not love, I am nothing.
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3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
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3 If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
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4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up;
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4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
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5 doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
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5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
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6 rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
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7 beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
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7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
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8 Charity never faileth. But whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
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8 Love 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.
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9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
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9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
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10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
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10 but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.
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11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
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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 ways behind me.
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12 For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; but then shall I know, even as also I am known.
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12 Now we see but a poor 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.
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13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
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13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
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| Third Millennium Bible (TMB), New Authorized Version, Copyright 1998 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc., Gary, SD 57237. All rights reserved. (Third Millennium Bible Online) |
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