131 Corinthians 13

CHAP. XIII. / 1 All giftes, 2. 3 how excellent soeuer, are nothing worth without charitie. 4 The praises therof, and 13 prelation before hope & faith.

1Though I speake with the tongues of men & of Angels, and haue not charity, I am become as sounding brasse or a tinkling cymbal.Select 1 Corinthians 13:1

2And though I haue the gift of prophesie, and vnderstand all mysteries and all knowledge: and though I haue all faith, so that I could remooue mountaines, and haue no charitie, I am nothing.Select 1 Corinthians 13:2

3And though I bestowe all my goods to feede the poore, and though I giue my body to bee burned, and haue not charitie, it profiteth me nothing.Select 1 Corinthians 13:3

4Charitie suffereth long, and is kinde: charitie enuieth not: charitie vaunteth not it selfe, is not puffed vp,Select 1 Corinthians 13:4

5Doeth not behaue it selfe vnseemly, seeketh not her owne, is not easily prouoked, thinketh no euill,Select 1 Corinthians 13:5

6Reioyceth not in iniquitie, but reioyceth in the trueth:Select 1 Corinthians 13:6

7Beareth all things, beleeueth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.Select 1 Corinthians 13:7

8Charitie neuer faileth: but whether there be prophesies, they shall faile; whether there bee tongues, they shall cease; whether there bee knowledge, it shall vanish away.Select 1 Corinthians 13:8

9For we know in part, and we prophesie in part.Select 1 Corinthians 13:9

10But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part, shalbe done away.Select 1 Corinthians 13:10

11When I was a childe, I spake as a childe, I vnderstood as a childe, I thought as a childe: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.Select 1 Corinthians 13:11

12For now we see through a glasse, darkely: but then face to face: now I know in part, but then shall I know euen as also I am knowen.Select 1 Corinthians 13:12

13And now abideth faith, hope, charitie, these three, but the greatest of these is charitie.Select 1 Corinthians 13:13