New American Standard Bible 1995

1 Corinthians 13:4-13

4Love 1is patient, love is kind and 2is not jealous; love does not brag and is not 3arrogant, 5does not act unbecomingly; it 4does not seek its own, is not provoked, 5does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6 6does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but 7rejoices with the truth; 7 8 9bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8Love never fails; but if there are gifts of 10 11prophecy, they will be done away; if there are 12tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. 9For we 13know in part and we prophesy in part; 10but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. 11When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I 14became a man, I did away with childish things. 12For now we 15see in a mirror 16dimly, but then 17face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also 18have been fully known. 13But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the 19greatest of these is 20love.

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Notes

1. 1 Corinthians 13:4 Prov 10:12; 17:9; 1 Thess 5:14; 1 Pet 4:8 ↩
2. 1 Corinthians 13:4 Acts 7:9 ↩
3. 1 Corinthians 13:4 1 Cor 4:6 ↩
4. 1 Corinthians 13:5 1 Cor 10:24; Phil 2:21 ↩
5. 1 Corinthians 13:5 2 Cor 5:19 ↩
6. 1 Corinthians 13:6 2 Thess 2:12 ↩
7. 1 Corinthians 13:6 2 John 4; 3 John 3f ↩
8. 1 Corinthians 13:7 Or covers ↩
9. 1 Corinthians 13:7 1 Cor 9:12 ↩
10. 1 Corinthians 13:8 Lit prophecies ↩
11. 1 Corinthians 13:8 1 Cor 13:2 ↩
12. 1 Corinthians 13:8 1 Cor 13:1 ↩
13. 1 Corinthians 13:9 1 Cor 8:2; 13:12 ↩
14. 1 Corinthians 13:11 Lit have become...have done away with ↩
15. 1 Corinthians 13:12 2 Cor 5:7; Phil 3:12; James 1:23 ↩
16. 1 Corinthians 13:12 Lit in a riddle ↩
17. 1 Corinthians 13:12 Gen 32:30; Num 12:8; 1 John 3:2 ↩
18. 1 Corinthians 13:12 1 Cor 8:3 ↩
19. 1 Corinthians 13:13 Lit greater ↩
20. 1 Corinthians 13:13 Gal 5:6 ↩

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