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English Standard Version ESV
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
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, and have not charity, I am nothing.
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And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
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If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
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Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
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or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
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Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
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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Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
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For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
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but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
11 When I was a child, I spake 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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When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
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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For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
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So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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