The Message Bible MSG
The Latin Vulgate VUL
1 If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.
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si linguis hominum loquar et angelorum caritatem autem non habeam factus sum velut aes sonans aut cymbalum tinniens
2 If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing.
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et si habuero prophetiam et noverim mysteria omnia et omnem scientiam et habuero omnem fidem ita ut montes transferam caritatem autem non habuero nihil sum
3 If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love.
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et si distribuero in cibos pauperum omnes facultates meas et si tradidero corpus meum ut ardeam caritatem autem non habuero nihil mihi prodest
4 Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn't want what it doesn't have. Love doesn't strut, Doesn't have a swelled head,
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caritas patiens est benigna est caritas non aemulatur non agit perperam non inflatur
5 Doesn't force itself on others, Isn't always "me first," Doesn't fly off the handle, Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,
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non est ambitiosa non quaerit quae sua sunt non inritatur non cogitat malum
6 Doesn't revel when others grovel, Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
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non gaudet super iniquitatem congaudet autem veritati
7 Puts up with anything, Trusts God always, Always looks for the best, Never looks back, But keeps going to the end.
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omnia suffert omnia credit omnia sperat omnia sustinet
8 Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit.
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caritas numquam excidit sive prophetiae evacuabuntur sive linguae cessabunt sive scientia destruetur
9 We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete.
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ex parte enim cognoscimus et ex parte prophetamus
10 But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.
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cum autem venerit quod perfectum est evacuabitur quod ex parte est
11 When I was an infant at my mother's breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.
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cum essem parvulus loquebar ut parvulus sapiebam ut parvulus cogitabam ut parvulus quando factus sum vir evacuavi quae erant parvuli
12 We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won't be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We'll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!
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videmus nunc per speculum in enigmate tunc autem facie ad faciem nunc cognosco ex parte tunc autem cognoscam sicut et cognitus sum
13 But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.
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nunc autem manet fides spes caritas tria haec maior autem his est caritas
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