1 Corinthians 13章 ESV

The Way of Love

1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

2And if I have 13:2 [ch. 14:1, 39; Matt. 7:22]; See Acts 2:18prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, 13:2 Matt. 17:20; Mark 11:23; [Luke 17:6]so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

313:3 [Matt. 6:2] If I give away all I have, and 13:3 Dan. 3:28if I deliver up my body to be burned,13:3 Some manuscripts deliver up my body [to death] that I may boast but have not love, I gain nothing.

413:4 [Prov. 10:12; 17:9; 1 Thess. 5:14; 2 Tim. 2:10; 1 Pet. 4:8] Love is patient and 13:4 [2 Cor. 6:6; Gal. 5:22; Eph. 4:32; Col. 3:12] kind; love 13:4 Acts 7:9does not envy or boast; it 13:4 See ch. 4:6is not arrogant

5or rude. It 13:5 See ch. 10:24does not insist on its own way; it 13:5 [Rom. 4:6; 2 Cor. 5:19]is not irritable or resentful;13:5 Greek irritable and does not count up wrongdoing

6it 13:6 [Rom. 1:32; 2 Thess. 2:12] does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but 13:6 [2 John 4; 3 John 3, 4]rejoices with the truth.

713:7 ch. 9:12Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, 13:7 [See ver. 4above]endures all things.

8Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

9For 13:9 [ch. 8:2]we know in part and we prophesy in part,

10but 13:10 [John 15:15]when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.

11When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.

12For 13:12 James 1:23; [Num. 12:8; Job 36:26; 2 Cor. 3:18; 5:7] now we see in a mirror dimly, but 13:12 1 John 3:2; See Matt. 5:8then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as 13:12 See ch. 8:3I have been fully known.

13So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

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