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1 Corinthians 13 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

The Way of Love

1Co 13:1

1Co 13:1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

1Co 13:2

1Co 13:2And 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.

1Co 13:3

1Co 13:3If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned,[fn] but have not love, I gain nothing.

1Co 13:4

1Co 13:4Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

1Co 13:5

1Co 13:5or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;[fn]

1Co 13:6

1Co 13:6it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.

1Co 13:7

1Co 13:7Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1Co 13:8

1Co 13:8Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

1Co 13:9

1Co 13:9For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

1Co 13:10

1Co 13:10but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.

1Co 13:11

1Co 13:11When 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.

1Co 13:12

1Co 13:12For 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.

1Co 13:13

1Co 13:13So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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Some manuscripts deliver up my body [to death] that I may boast
Greek irritable and does not count up wrongdoing
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