Love 1 UEB Suppose that I speak with the tongues of men and of angels. But if I do not have love, I have become 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 UEB Suppose that I have the gift of prophecy and understand all hidden truths and knowledge, and that I have all faith so as to remove mountains. But if I do not have love, 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 UEB Suppose that I give all I own to feed the poor, and that I give my body to be burned. But if I do not have love, I 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 UEB Love is patient and kind. Love does not envy or boast. It is not arrogant BSB BSB: Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 UEB or rude. It is not self-serving. It is not easily angered, nor does it keep a count of wrongs. BSB BSB: It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
6 UEB It does not rejoice in unrighteousness. Instead, it rejoices in the truth. BSB BSB: Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
7 UEB Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. BSB BSB: It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 UEB Love never ends. If there are prophecies, they will pass away. If there are tongues, they will cease. If there is knowledge, it will pass 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 UEB For we know in part and we prophesy in part. BSB BSB: For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10 UEB But when the perfect comes, that which is incomplete will pass away. BSB BSB: but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.
11 UEB When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became an adult, 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 UEB For now we see indirectly in a mirror, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I have been fully 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 UEB But now these three remain: faith, future confidence, and love. But the greatest of these is love. BSB BSB: And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
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