1 Corinthians 13:4-13
Christian Standard Bible
4 Love is patient,(A) love is kind. Love does not envy,(B) is not boastful, is not arrogant,(C) 5 is not rude, is not self-seeking,(D) is not irritable,(E) and does not keep a record of wrongs. 6 Love finds no joy in unrighteousness but rejoices in the truth.(F) 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures(G) all things.
8 Love never ends.(H) But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will come to an end. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put aside childish things. 12 For now we see only a reflection[a] as in a mirror, but then face to face.(I) Now I know in part, but then I will know fully,(J) as I am fully known.(K) 13 Now these three remain: faith, hope,(L) and love—but the greatest of these is love.
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1 Corinthians 13:4-13
New International Version
4 Love is patient,(A) love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.(B) 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking,(C) it is not easily angered,(D) it keeps no record of wrongs.(E) 6 Love does not delight in evil(F) but rejoices with the truth.(G) 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.(H)
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies,(I) they will cease; where there are tongues,(J) they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part(K) and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes,(L) 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(M) behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror;(N) then we shall see face to face.(O) Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.(P)
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.(Q) But the greatest of these is love.(R)
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