1 Corinthians 13
The love chapter: Paul declares that without love, all gifts are meaningless. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, boast, or keep record of wrongs. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Faith, hope, and love remain, but the greatest of these is love.
1 CorinthiansChapter 13 of 1613 versesBerean Standard Bible
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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.
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.
If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
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.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.
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.
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.
And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
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How to Hear God’s Voice: A Practical Guide for BelieversScripture is the record of a God who speaks. This guide covers how to hear Him today and keep what He says.Cross-references for 1 Corinthians 13
“Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.”
1 Corinthians 13:4Ephesians 4:32
“Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you.”
1 Corinthians 13:111 Corinthians 14:20
“Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.”
1 Corinthians 13:131 Corinthians 16:14
“Do everything in love.”
1 Corinthians 13:13Colossians 3:14
“And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.”
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