Love 1 ULT If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but 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 ULT And if I have prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but 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 ULT And if I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body, so that I might boast, but 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 ULT Love is patient{ and} is kind; love does not envy; love does not boast; it 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 ULT It is not rude; it does not seek{ its} own; it is not easily angered; it does not keep a count of the wrongs. BSB BSB: It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
6 ULT It does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices in the truth. BSB BSB: Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
7 ULT It 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 ULT Love never fails. But if{ there are} prophecies, they will pass away; if tongues, they will cease; if 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 ULT For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. BSB BSB: For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10 ULT But when the perfect comes,{ that which is} partial will pass away. BSB BSB: but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.
11 ULT When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put away the things of the 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 ULT For now we see unclearly in a mirror, but then, face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I also 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 ULT But now these three remain: faith, hope,{ 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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