Weymouth New Testament WNT
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1 If I can speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but am destitute of Love, I have but become a loud-sounding trumpet or a clanging cymbal.
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If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 If I possess the gift of prophecy and am versed in all mysteries and all knowledge, and have such absolute faith that I can remove mountains, but am destitute of Love, I am nothing.
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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 do not have love, I am nothing.
3 And if I distribute all my possessions to the poor, and give up my body to be burned, but am destitute of Love, it profits me nothing.
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If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient and kind. Love knows neither envy nor jealousy. Love is not forward and self-assertive, nor boastful and conceited.
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Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 She does not behave unbecomingly, nor seek to aggrandize herself, nor blaze out in passionate anger, nor brood over wrongs.
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It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
6 She finds no pleasure in injustice done to others, but joyfully sides with the truth.
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Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
7 She knows how to be silent. She is full of trust, full of hope, full of patient endurance.
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It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But if there are prophecies, they will be done away with; if there are languages, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be brought to an end.
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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.
9 For our knowledge is imperfect, and so is our prophesying;
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For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10 but when the perfect state of things is come, all that is imperfect will be brought to an end.
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but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.
11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, felt like a child, reasoned like a child: when I became a man, I put from me childish ways.
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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 the ways of childhood behind me.
12 For the present we see things as if in a mirror, and are puzzled; but then we shall see them face to face. For the present the knowledge I gain is imperfect; but then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
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For now we see only a 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.
13 And so there remain Faith, Hope, Love--these three; and of these the greatest is Love.
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And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
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