Love 1 CPDV If I were to speak in the language of men, or of Angels, yet not have charity, I would be like a clanging bell or a crashing 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 CPDV And if I have prophecy, and learn every mystery, and obtain all knowledge, and possess all faith, so that I could move mountains, yet not have charity, then 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 CPDV And if I distribute all my goods in order to feed the poor, and if I hand over my body to be burned, yet not have charity, it offers 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 CPDV Charity is patient, is kind. Charity does not envy, does not act wrongly, is not inflated. BSB BSB: Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 CPDV Charity is not ambitious, does not seek for itself, is not provoked to anger, devises 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 CPDV Charity does not rejoice over iniquity, but rejoices in truth. BSB BSB: Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
7 CPDV Charity suffers all, believes all, hopes all, endures all. BSB BSB: It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 CPDV Charity is never torn away, even if prophecies pass away, or languages cease, or knowledge is destroyed. 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 CPDV For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part. BSB BSB: For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10 CPDV But when the perfect arrives, the imperfect passes away. BSB BSB: but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.
11 CPDV When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I understood like a child, I thought like a child. But when I became a man, I put aside the things of a child. 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 CPDV Now we see through a glass darkly. But then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know, even as 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 CPDV But for now, these three continue: faith, hope, and charity. And 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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