Jubilee Bible 2000 JUB
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1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity, I am become <em>as</em> sounding brass or a tinkling 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 And though I have <em>the gift of</em> 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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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 though I bestow all my goods to feed <em>the poor</em> and though I give my body to be burned and have not charity, 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 Charity suffers long <em>and</em> is benign; charity envies not; charity does <em>nothing</em> without due reason, is not puffed up,
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Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 is not injurious, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil,
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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 rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
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Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
7 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 Charity is never lost, but prophecies shall come to an end, tongues shall cease, and knowledge shall come 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 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 completeness comes, what is in part disappears.
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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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 now we see as through a mirror, in darkness, but then <em>we shall see</em> face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall know even as I also am 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 now abide faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these <em>is</em> charity.
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And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
The Jubilee Bible (from the Scriptures of the Reformation), edited by Russell M. Stendal, Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2010
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