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New International Version NIV
4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
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Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
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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 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
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Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
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It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
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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.
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