Love 1 AKJV Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. BSB BSB: If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 AKJV And 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. BSB BSB: If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3 AKJV And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profits me nothing. BSB BSB: If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 AKJV Charity suffers long, and is kind; charity envies not; charity brags not itself, is not puffed up, BSB BSB: Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 AKJV Does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil; BSB BSB: It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
6 AKJV Rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; BSB BSB: Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
7 AKJV Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. BSB BSB: It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 AKJV Charity never fails: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. BSB BSB: Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed.
9 AKJV For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. BSB BSB: For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10 AKJV But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. BSB BSB: but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.
11 AKJV When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. BSB BSB: When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.
12 AKJV For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. BSB BSB: Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 AKJV And now stays faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. BSB BSB: And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
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