1 Corinthians 13:3-5
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
3 If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.(A)
4 [a]Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, [love] is not pompous, it is not inflated,(B) 5 it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,(C)
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- 13:4–7 This paragraph is developed by personification and enumeration, defining love by what it does or does not do. The Greek contains fifteen verbs; it is natural to translate many of them by adjectives in English.
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