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1 Corinthians 13:2-4
1599 Geneva Bible
1 Corinthians 13:2-4
1599 Geneva Bible
2 And though I had the gift of prophecy, and knew all secrets and all knowledge, yea, if I had all [a]faith, so that I could remove (A)mountains, and had not love, I were nothing.
3 And though I feed the poor with all my goods, and though I give my body, that I be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
4 [b]Love [c]suffereth long: it is bountiful: love envieth not: love doth not boast itself: it is not puffed up:
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- 1 Corinthians 13:2 By faith, he meaneth the gift of doing miracles, and not that faith which justified, which cannot be void of Charity as the other may.
- 1 Corinthians 13:4 He describeth the force and nature of charity, partly by a comparison of contraries, and partly by the effects of itself: whereby the Corinthians may understand, both how profitable it is in the Church, and how necessary and also how far they are from it: and therefore how vainly and without cause they are proud.
- 1 Corinthians 13:4 Word for word deferreth wrath.
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