New Testament · 1 Corinthians

1 Corinthians 13

1If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have agape(love), I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

2If I have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and all gnosis(knowledge), and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but do not have agape(love), I am nothing.

3And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have agape(love), it profits me nothing.

4Agape(love) is patient, agape(love) is kind and is not jealous; agape(love) does not brag and is not arrogant,

5does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,

6does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the aletheia(truth);

7bears all things, believes all things, elpis(hope)s all things, endures all things.

8Agape(love) never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is gnosis(knowledge), it will be done away.

9For we know in part and we prophesy in part;

10but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.

11When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.

12For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will epiginosomai(knowing-without-misjudgment) fully just as I also have been fully epiginosko(knowing-without-misjudgment).

13But now faith, elpis(hope), agape(love), these three; but the greatest of these is agape(love).

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