1 Corinthians 13
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Chapter overview
Even extraordinary speech, knowledge, faith, and generosity amount to nothing without love. Love acts patiently and selflessly, endures beyond partial gifts, and moves believers from dim perception toward mature, lasting knowledge.
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1If I speak with the tongues of men and of messengers, and do not have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal;
2and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, and do not have love, I am nothing;
3and if I give away all my goods to feed others, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and do not have love, I am profited nothing.
4Love is long-suffering, it is kind, love does not envy, love does not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,
5does not act unseemly, does not seek its own things, is not provoked, does not impute evil,
6[does] not rejoice over unrighteousness, and rejoices with the truth;
7it bears all things, it believes all, it hopes all, it endures all.
8Love never fails; and whether [there be] prophecies, they will become useless; whether tongues, they will cease; whether knowledge, it will become useless;
9for we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
10and when that which is perfect may come, then that which [is] in part will become useless.
11When I was a child, I was speaking as a child, I was thinking as a child, I was reasoning as a child, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the child;
12for we now see obscurely through a mirror, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I will fully know, as I was also known;
13and now there remains faith, hope, love—these three; and the greatest of these [is] love.
Verses to memorize from 1 Corinthians 13
- 1 Corinthians 13:4-7Love is long-suffering, it is kind, love does not envy, love does not…
- 1 Corinthians 13:11When I was a child, I was speaking as a child, I was thinking as a…
- 1 Corinthians 13:13and now there remains faith, hope, love—these three; and the greatest…
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