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1 Corinthians 13 · American Standard Version (1901)

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1 Corinthians 13

  1. 1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

    Ante-Nicene Fathers · 4
  2. 2 And 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.

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  3. 3 And 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.

    Ante-Nicene Fathers · 3
  4. 4 Love suffereth long, [and] is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

    Ante-Nicene Fathers · 5
  5. 5 doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;

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  6. 6 rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;

  7. 7 beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

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  8. 8 Love 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.

    Ante-Nicene Fathers · 1
  9. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;

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  10. 10 but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.

    Ante-Nicene Fathers · 3
  11. 11 When 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.

    Ante-Nicene Fathers · 4
  12. 12 For 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.

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  13. 13 But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

    Ante-Nicene Fathers · 2

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