(A)If I give away all I have, and (B)if I deliver up my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, I gain nothing.

(C)Love is patient and (D)kind; love (E)does not envy or boast; it (F)is not arrogant or rude. It (G)does not insist on its own way; it (H)is not irritable or resentful;[b] it (I)does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but (J)rejoices with the truth. (K)Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, (L)endures all things.

Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For (M)we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but (N)when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 13:3 Some manuscripts deliver up my body [to death] that I may boast
  2. 1 Corinthians 13:5 Greek irritable and does not count up wrongdoing

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