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.

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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.

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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.

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e*Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity 1*vaunteth not itself, is not fpuffed up,

f ch. 4.6.
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gDoth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

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hRejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth 2in the truth;

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iBeareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

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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.

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For lwe know in part, and we prophesy in part.

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But mwhen that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be 4done away.

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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.

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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.

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And now pabideth faith, hope, *charity, these three; but qthe greatest of these is charity.