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1 Corinthians 13
New International Version

13 If I speak in the tongues[a](A) of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy(B) and can fathom all mysteries(C) and all knowledge,(D) and if I have a faith(E) that can move mountains,(F) but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor(G) and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b](H) but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient,(I) love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.(J) 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking,(K) it is not easily angered,(L) it keeps no record of wrongs.(M) 6 Love does not delight in evil(N) but rejoices with the truth.(O) 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.(P)

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies,(Q) they will cease; where there are tongues,(R) they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part(S) and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes,(T) what is in part disappears. 11 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(U) behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror;(V) then we shall see face to face.(W) Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.(X)

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.(Y) But the greatest of these is love.(Z)

#### Footnotes

1. 1 Corinthians 13:1 Or languages
2. 1 Corinthians 13:3 Some manuscripts body to the flames

#### Cross references

1. 1 Corinthians 13:1 : ver 8; S Mk 16:17
2. 1 Corinthians 13:2 : ver 8; S Eph 4:11; S Ac 11:27
3. 1 Corinthians 13:2 : 1Co 14:2
4. 1 Corinthians 13:2 : S 2Co 8:7
5. 1 Corinthians 13:2 : 1Co 12:9
6. 1 Corinthians 13:2 : Mt 17:20; 21:21
7. 1 Corinthians 13:3 : Lk 19:8; S Ac 2:45
8. 1 Corinthians 13:3 : Da 3:28
9. 1 Corinthians 13:4 : 1Th 5:14
10. 1 Corinthians 13:4 : 1Co 5:2
11. 1 Corinthians 13:5 : S 1Co 10:24
12. 1 Corinthians 13:5 : S Mt 5:22
13. 1 Corinthians 13:5 : Job 14:16, 17; Pr 10:12; 17:9; 1Pe 4:8
14. 1 Corinthians 13:6 : 2Th 2:12
15. 1 Corinthians 13:6 : 2Jn 4; 3Jn 3, 4
16. 1 Corinthians 13:7 : ver 8, 13
17. 1 Corinthians 13:8 : ver 2
18. 1 Corinthians 13:8 : ver 1
19. 1 Corinthians 13:9 : ver 12; S 1Co 8:2
20. 1 Corinthians 13:10 : Php 3:12
21. 1 Corinthians 13:11 : Ps 131:2
22. 1 Corinthians 13:12 : Job 26:14; 36:26
23. 1 Corinthians 13:12 : Ge 32:30; Job 19:26; 1Jn 3:2
24. 1 Corinthians 13:12 : 1Co 8:3; Gal 4:9
25. 1 Corinthians 13:13 : Ro 5:2-5; Gal 5:5, 6; Eph 4:2-5; Col 1:4, 5; 1Th 1:3; 5:8; Heb 6:10-12
26. 1 Corinthians 13:13 : Mt 22:37-40; 1Co 16:14; Gal 5:6; 1Jn 4:7-12, 16

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