1 Corinthians 13 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

The Excellence of Love

1Co 13:1If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

1Co 13:2

1Co 13:2If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.

1Co 13:3

1Co 13:3If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.

1Co 13:4

1Co 13:4Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,

1Co 13:5

1Co 13:5doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

1Co 13:6

1Co 13:6doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

1Co 13:7

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

1Co 13:8

1Co 13:8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

1Co 13:9

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

1Co 13:10

1Co 13:10but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.

1Co 13:11

1Co 13:11When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

1Co 13:12

1Co 13:12For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

1Co 13:13

1Co 13:13But now faith, hope, and love remain -- these three. The greatest of these is love.

The Hebrew Names Version is based off the World English Bible, an update of the American Standard Version of 1901. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

1 Corinthians 13 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

The Excellence of Love

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