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1 Corinthians 13

Paul's chapter on love. Without love, the greatest gifts, knowledge and sacrifices are worth nothing. Love is patient and kind, not envious or proud, keeps no record of wrongs, and bears and hopes all things. Gifts will end, but faith, hope and love remain, and the greatest is love. The KJV calls it "charity".

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Key verses

  • Verse 4Love is patient and kind, not jealous or proud.
  • Verse 7Love bears, believes, hopes and endures all things.
  • Verse 13Faith, hope and love remain; the greatest is love.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.Selected1 Corinthians 13:1Ask

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.Selected1 Corinthians 13:2Ask

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.Selected1 Corinthians 13:3Ask

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,Selected1 Corinthians 13:4Ask

Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;Selected1 Corinthians 13:5Ask

Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;Selected1 Corinthians 13:6Ask

Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.Selected1 Corinthians 13:7Ask

Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.Selected1 Corinthians 13:8Ask

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.Selected1 Corinthians 13:9Ask

But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.Selected1 Corinthians 13:10Ask

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.Selected1 Corinthians 13:11Ask

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.Selected1 Corinthians 13:12Ask

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.Selected1 Corinthians 13:13Ask

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