1 CORINTHIANS Chapter 13 (GNB)

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13:1   I may be able to speak the languages of human beings and even of angels, but if I have no love, my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell.

13:2   I may have the gift of inspired preaching; I may have all knowledge and understand all secrets; I may have all the faith needed to move mountains---but if I have no love, I am nothing.

13:3   I may give away everything I have, and even give up my body to be burned ---but if I have no love, this does me no good.

13:4   Love is patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud;

13:5 love is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable; love does not keep a record of wrongs;

13:6   love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth.

13:7   Love never gives up; and its faith, hope, and patience never fail.

13:8   Love is eternal. There are inspired messages, but they are temporary; there are gifts of speaking in strange tongues, but they will cease; there is knowledge, but it will pass.

13:9   For our gifts of knowledge and of inspired messages are only partial;

13:10   but when what is perfect comes, then what is partial will disappear.

13:11   When I was a child, my speech, feelings, and thinking were all those of a child; now that I am an adult, I have no more use for childish ways.

13:12   What we see now is like a dim image in a mirror; then we shall see face-to-face. What I know now is only partial; then it will be complete---as complete as God's knowledge of me.

13:13   Meanwhile these three remain: faith, hope, and love; and the greatest of these is love.

CHAPTER ENDS

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