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1 Corinthians 13

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1 Corinthians 13 Bible text

WEB: 1WEB

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

ASV: 1ASV

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

WEB: 2WEB

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 don’t have love, I am nothing.

ASV: 2ASV

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.

WEB: 3WEB

If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

ASV: 3ASV

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.

WEB: 4WEB

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

ASV: 4ASV

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

WEB: 5WEB

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

ASV: 5ASV

doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;

WEB: 6WEB

doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

ASV: 6ASV

rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;

WEB: 7WEB

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

ASV: 7ASV

beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

WEB: 8WEB

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

ASV: 8ASV

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.

WEB: 9WEB

For we know in part and we prophesy in part;

ASV: 9ASV

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;

WEB: 10WEB

but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.

ASV: 10ASV

but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.

WEB: 11WEB

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

ASV: 11ASV

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.

WEB: 12WEB

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

ASV: 12ASV

For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known.

WEB: 13WEB

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

ASV: 13ASV

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.