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<A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/13-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, and do not have love, I am nothing; <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/13-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>and if I give away all my goods to feed others, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and do not have love, I am profited nothing.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Love is long-suffering, it is kind, love does not envy, love does not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/13-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>does not act unseemly, does not seek its own things, is not provoked, does not impute evil, <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/13-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>[does] not rejoice over unrighteousness, and rejoices with the truth; <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/13-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>it bears all things, it believes all, it hopes all, it endures all.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Love never fails; and whether [there be] prophecies, they will become useless; whether tongues, they will cease; whether knowledge, it will become useless; <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>for we know in part, and we prophesy in part; <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and when that which is perfect may come, then that which [is] in part will become useless. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>When I was a child, I was speaking as a child, I was thinking as a child, I was reasoning as a child, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the child; <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>for we now see obscurely through a mirror, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I will fully know, as I was also known; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>and now there remains faith, hope, love—these three; and the greatest of these [is] love.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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