Love 1 RV If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, 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 RV And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not 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 RV And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor , and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth 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 RV Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, 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 RV doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil; BSB BSB: It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
6 RV rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth; BSB BSB: Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
7 RV beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. BSB BSB: It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 RV Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall be done 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 RV For we know in part, and we prophesy in part: BSB BSB: For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10 RV but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away. BSB BSB: but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.
11 RV When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have 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 RV For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I have been 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 RV But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and 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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