1 Corinthians

1 Corinthians 13 ©

1 All gifts, however excellent, without charity are worth nothing. 4 The praises of charity, 13 and its preference to faith and hope.

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THOUGH I speak with the tongues of men and of aangels, and have not b*charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

a 2Co. 12.4.
b 1Pe. 4.8. 1Ti. 1.5. Ro. 14; 13.8-10. ch. 8.1. v.2,3.
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cAnd though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not *charity, I am nothing.

c ch. 12.8-10,28. Lu. 17.6. Mat. 17.20; 7.22,23; 21.19,21. ch. 14.1,6-9; 8.1.
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dAnd though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not *charity, it profiteth me nothing.

d Pr. 25.21. Ro. 12.8,20; 5.7. Mat. 6.1,2; 7.22,23. Jn. 15.13. 1Jn. 3.16. Ja. 2.14.
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e*Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity 1*vaunteth not itself, is not fpuffed up,

e Pr. 10.12. Nu. 12.3. Ps. 35.13,14. 2Co. 6.6. Ja. 3.14-18. Col. 2.18; 3.12-14. Phi. 2.1-5. Ep. 4.31,32. 1Pe. 4.8. ch. 1.11; 3.3; 4.8; 5.2.
f ch. 4.6.
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gDoth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

g ch. 11; 14.40. Phi. 2.4; 4.8. Ro. 15.1,2; 12.19. ch. 10.23,24. De. 1.36; 9.7,19; 29.29. 2Co. 12.15. Pr. 14.7.
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hRejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth 2in the truth;

h Ro. 1.32; 12.9. Ps. 10.3; 15.4. Ex. 18.9. Phi. 1.18. 2Jn. 4.
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iBeareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

i Pr. 10.12. Ro. 15.1,2. Ga. 6.2. Le. 19.17. Re. 2.2. ch. 5.4,5,7,13; 9.12,19-23. 1Pe. 4.8. 2Ti. 2.10,24,25. Ps. 119.66. Ro. 8.24. Job 13.15.
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j*Charity never faileth: but whether there be kprophecies, they shall 3fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

j v.10. 2Pe. 1.19. ch. 7.30,31.
k ch. 14.39.
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For lwe know in part, and we prophesy in part.

l ch. 8.2. Ps. 73.22. Pr. 30.2,3. Phi. 3.12,13. 1Pe. 1.10,11.
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But mwhen that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be 4done away.

m 1Jn. 3.2. Je. 31.34. 2Co. 5.7,8. Is. 60.17,19,20.
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nWhen I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I 5thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

n Is. 28.11. ch. 3.1,2; 14.20.
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oFor now we see through a *glass, 6darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

o 2Co. 3.18; 4.18; 5.7. Phi. 3.12,13. Ex. 33.11. Nu. 12.8. Ro. 8.18. 1Jn. 3.2. Mat. 18.10. Re. 22.4.
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And now pabideth faith, hope, *charity, these three; but qthe greatest of these is charity.

p He. 10.35,39. 1Pe. 1.21. 1Jn. 3.9. 2Pe. 3.18. 1Ti. 1.5. 2Ti. 1.5.
q v.4-8. 1Ti. 1.5. Ro. 13.8-10. Mat. 22.37,38. Ep. 5.2. ch. 16.14.