1 Corinthians 13 ASV
Summary: In the celebrated "love chapter," Paul declares that eloquence, prophecy, knowledge, faith, and even self-sacrifice are worthless without love: "love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude... it bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things" (v. 4-7). He contrasts love's permanence with the temporary nature of prophecies, tongues, and knowledge, which will pass away, comparing present understanding to seeing "in a mirror dimly" compared to the full knowledge to come. The chapter closes with the enduring triad: "So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love" (v. 13).
1If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
2And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
4Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;
6rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;
7beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall be done away.
9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
10but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.
11When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.
12For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known.
13But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
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