1 Corinthians 13131 CorinthiansWorship, gifts and loveGeneva Bible

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1. Love

2. 1GNVThough I speake with the tongues of men and Angels, and haue not loue, I am as sounding brasse, or a tinkling cymbal.BSBBSB: 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.
3. 2GNVAnd though I had the gift of prophecie, and knewe all secrets and all knowledge, yea, if I had all faith, so that I could remooue mountaines and had not loue, I were nothing.BSBBSB: 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.
4. 3GNVAnd though I feede the poore with all my goods, and though I giue my body, that I be burned, and haue not loue, it profiteth me nothing.BSBBSB: If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.
5. 4GNVLoue suffreth long: it is bountifull: loue enuieth not: loue doeth not boast it selfe: it is not puffed vp:BSBBSB: Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
6. 5GNVIt doeth no vncomely thing: it seeketh not her owne things: it is not prouoked to anger: it thinketh not euill:BSBBSB: It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
7. 6GNVIt reioyceth not in iniquitie, but reioyceth in the trueth:BSBBSB: Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
8. 7GNVIt suffreth all things: it beleeueth all things: it hopeth all things: it endureth all things.BSBBSB: It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
9. 8GNVLoue doeth neuer fall away, though that prophecyings be abolished, or the tongues cease, or knowledge vanish away.BSBBSB: 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.
10. 9GNVFor we knowe in part, and we prophecie in part.BSBBSB: For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
11. 10GNVBut when that which is perfect, is come, then that which is in part, shalbe abolished.BSBBSB: but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.
12. 11GNVWhen I was a childe, I spake as a childe, I vnderstoode as a childe, I thought as a childe: but when I became a man, I put away childish thinges.BSBBSB: 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.
13. 12GNVFor nowe we see through a glasse darkely: but then shall wee see face to face. Nowe I know in part: but then shall I know euen as I am knowen.BSBBSB: 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.
14. 13GNVAnd nowe abideth faith, hope and loue, euen these three: but the chiefest of these is loue.BSBBSB: And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.