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Though in every tongue of men and of angels I spoke, and had not love, I should be as brass which soundeth, or a cymbal which giveth voice. |
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If I could speak in every tongue of men, and in that of angels, and there should be no love in me, I should be like brass that resoundeth, or the cymbal that maketh a noise. |
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And though there were in me prophecy, and I knew all mysteries, and all knowledge, and though there were in me all faith, as that I could remove the mountain, and love were not in me, I should be nothing. |
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And if there should be in me [the gift of] prophecy, and I should understand all the mysteries, and every science; and if there should be in me all faith, so that I could move mountains, and love should not be in me, I should be nothing. |
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And if all I have I make to feed the poor, and I deliver my body to burn, and love be not in me, I profit nothing. |
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And if I should feed out to the destitute all I possess; and if I should give my body to be burned; and there should be no love in me, I gain nothing. |
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13:4 ¶
LOVE is patient and benign; love envieth not; love is not tumultuous, nor inflated; |
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Love is long-suffering, and is kind; love is not envious; love is not boisterous; and is not inflated; |
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it acteth not with unseemliness, nor seeketh its own; it is not angry, nor thoughtful of evil; |
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and doth nothing that causeth shame; and seeketh not her own; is not passionate; and thinketh no evil; |
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it rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth. |
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rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; |
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It endureth every thing, believeth every thing; it hopeth all, endureth all. |
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beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all, and endureth all. |
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Love never falleth; for prophecies shall be abolished, and tongues be silent, and knowledge be abolished: |
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Love will never cease. But prophesyings will end; and tongues will be silent; and knowledge will vanish. |
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for it is a little of much that we know, and a little of much we prophesy; |
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13:9
For we know but partially; and we prophesy but partially. |
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but when the perfection shall have come, then shall be abolished that which is little. |
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But when completeness shall come, then that which is partial will vanish away. |
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13:11
When I was a child, as a child I spake, and as a child I thought, and as a child I reasoned; but when I had become a man I abolished these things of childhood. |
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13:11
When I was a child, I talked as a child, and I reasoned as a child, and I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I laid aside the things of childhood. |
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13:12
But now as in a mirror we see in a figure; but then - the face before the face. Now I know a little of much; but then shall I know even as I am known. |
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And now we see, as by a mirror, in similitude; but then face to face: now I know partially; but then shall I know, just as I am known. |
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For these are the three that remain, faith and hope and love; but the greatest of these is love. |
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For these three things are abiding, faith, and hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love. |
