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1 Corinthians 13 :: New International Version (NIV)

1Co 13:1

1Co 13:1If I speak in the tongues[fn] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

1Co 13:2

1Co 13:2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

1Co 13:3

1Co 13:3If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[fn] but do not have love, I gain nothing.

1Co 13:4

1Co 13:4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

1Co 13:5

1Co 13:5It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

1Co 13:6

1Co 13:6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

1Co 13:7

1Co 13:7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

1Co 13:8

1Co 13:8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is 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 completeness comes, what is in part disappears.

1Co 13:11

1Co 13:11When 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 behind me.

1Co 13:12

1Co 13:12For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

1Co 13:13

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