If I have the gift of (A)prophecy and know all (B)mysteries and all (C)knowledge, and if I have (D)all faith so as to (E)remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I (F)give away all my possessions to charity, and if I (G)surrender my body so that I may [a]glory, but do not have love, it does me no good.

Love (H)is patient, love is kind, it (I)is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not (J)arrogant. It does not act disgracefully, it (K)does not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, (L)does not keep an account of a wrong suffered, (M)it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but (N)rejoices with the truth; it [b](O)keeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails; but if there are gifts of [c](P)prophecy, they will be done away with; if there are (Q)tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away with. For we (R)know in part and prophesy in part; 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away with.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 13:3 I.e., in martyrdom
  2. 1 Corinthians 13:7 Lit covers all things
  3. 1 Corinthians 13:8 Lit prophecies

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