1 Corinthians 13:4-13

English Standard Version

⁴^(A)Love is patient and ^(B)kind; love ^(C)does not envy or boast; it ^(D)is not arrogant ⁵or rude. It ^(E)does not insist on its own way; it ^(F)is not irritable or resentful;^[a] ⁶it ^(G)does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but ^(H)rejoices with the truth. ⁷^(I)Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, ^(J)endures all things.

⁸Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹For ^(K)we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰but ^(L)when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. ¹¹When 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 gave up childish ways. ¹²For ^(M)now we see in a mirror dimly, but ^(N)then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as ^(O)I have been fully known.

¹³So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

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1 Corinthians 13:5 Greek irritable and does not count up wrongdoing

1 Corinthians 13:4-13

New International Version

⁴Love is patient,^(A) love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.^(B) ⁵It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking,^(C) it is not easily angered,^(D) it keeps no record of wrongs.^(E) ⁶Love does not delight in evil^(F) but rejoices with the truth.^(G) ⁷It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.^(H)

⁸Love 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. ⁹For we know in part^(K) and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰but when completeness comes,^(L) what is in part disappears. ¹¹When 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. ¹²For 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)