1 Corinthians 13
American King James Version
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1Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.Select 1 Corinthians 13:1
2And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.Select 1 Corinthians 13:2
3And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profits me nothing.Select 1 Corinthians 13:3
4Charity suffers long, and is kind; charity envies not; charity brags not itself, is not puffed up,Select 1 Corinthians 13:4
5Does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil;Select 1 Corinthians 13:5
6Rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;Select 1 Corinthians 13:6
7Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.Select 1 Corinthians 13:7
8Charity never fails: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.Select 1 Corinthians 13:8
9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.Select 1 Corinthians 13:9
10But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.Select 1 Corinthians 13:10
11When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.Select 1 Corinthians 13:11
12For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.Select 1 Corinthians 13:12
13And now stays faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.Select 1 Corinthians 13:13
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