1 Corinthians 13 - Love
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.
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.
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.
Charity
suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth
not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed
up,
doth
not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her
own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
rejoiceth
not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
beareth
all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.
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.
For
we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
But
when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away.
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.
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.
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these
three; but the greatest of these is charity.
Bible
quotes are from the King James version
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