Love 1 UDB If I could speak with all the languages of humans and angels, but if I did not have love, all my talking would be like the sound of a noisy gong or a clanging 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 UDB If I could proclaim messages for God, and if I could explain secret truths about God, and if I trusted in God so much that I could move a mountain, but if I did not have love, I would be worth 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 UDB If I gave away all I own to feed the poor, or if I sacrificed myself to be burned to rescue someone else, but if I did not have love, I would gain 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 UDB If you have love, you will endure hardships with joy. If you have love, you will be kind to others. If you have love, you will not resent that other people possess things you do not have. If you have love, you will not boast about yourself or be proud. BSB BSB: Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 UDB If you have love, you will not abuse people. You will not live to please yourself. No one will be able to quickly make you angry. You will not keep track of any wrongs you have suffered. BSB BSB: It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
6 UDB If you have love, you will not be happy if anyone does wicked things; instead, you will be happy when people are faithful to God. BSB BSB: Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
7 UDB If you have love, you will endure everything that happens to you. You will trust that God will do the best things for people. You will trust in God regardless of what happens. You will obey God regardless of what hardships you are facing. BSB BSB: It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 UDB Love never stops. Those who are able to speak God's messages, speak in strange languages, or know hidden truths, do these things only for a while. One day they will stop doing these things. 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 UDB Now we know only a small part of all there is to know. Those who proclaim God's messages do so only partially. BSB BSB: For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10 UDB But when things are complete, everything that is partial or incomplete will end. BSB BSB: but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.
11 UDB When I was a small child, I talked as a child talks, I thought as a child thinks, and I made decisions as a child makes decisions. But when I became an adult, I stopped acting like a child, and I started acting like an adult. 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 UDB What we understand now, we understand very imperfectly, not well at all. But then, when we see Christ, we will see him face to face. Now I know only part of what is true. But then I will know him fully, just as he knows me fully. 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 UDB So now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these three things is love. BSB BSB: And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
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