(A)Love suffers long and is (B)kind; love (C)does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not [a]puffed up; does not behave rudely, (D)does not seek its own, is not provoked, [b]thinks no evil; (E)does not rejoice in iniquity, but (F)rejoices in the truth; (G)bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. (H)For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is [c]perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For (I)now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then (J)face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

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

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 13:4 arrogant
  2. 1 Corinthians 13:5 keeps no accounts of evil
  3. 1 Corinthians 13:10 complete

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