1 Corinthians 13:3-12
New International Version
3 If I give all I possess to the poor(A) and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[a](B) but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient,(C) love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.(D) 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking,(E) it is not easily angered,(F) it keeps no record of wrongs.(G) 6 Love does not delight in evil(H) but rejoices with the truth.(I) 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.(J)
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies,(K) they will cease; where there are tongues,(L) they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part(M) and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes,(N) what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood(O) behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror;(P) then we shall see face to face.(Q) Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.(R)
Footnotes
- 1 Corinthians 13:3 Some manuscripts body to the flames
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