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I Corinthians 13

I Corinthians 13:1. If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;

I Corinthians 13:2 and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

I Corinthians 13:3 and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

I Corinthians 13:4. The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

I Corinthians 13:5 doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,

I Corinthians 13:6 rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth;

I Corinthians 13:7 all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth.

I Corinthians 13:8. The love doth never fail; and whether [there be] prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

I Corinthians 13:9 for in part we know, and in part we prophecy;

I Corinthians 13:10 and when that which is perfect may come, then that which [is] in part shall become useless.

I Corinthians 13:11 When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;

I Corinthians 13:12 for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known;

I Corinthians 13:13 and now there doth remain faith, hope, love--these three; and the greatest of these [is] love.