Love is patient,(A) love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.(B) It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking,(C) it is not easily angered,(D) it keeps no record of wrongs.(E) Love does not delight in evil(F) but rejoices with the truth.(G) It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.(H)

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies,(I) they will cease; where there are tongues,(J) they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

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

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  1. 1 Corinthians 13:5 Greek irritable and does not count up wrongdoing

Love (A)is patient, love is kind, it (B)is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not (C)arrogant. It does not act disgracefully, it (D)does not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, (E)does not keep an account of a wrong suffered, (F)it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but (G)rejoices with the truth; it [a](H)keeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails; but if there are gifts of [b](I)prophecy, they will be done away with; if there are (J)tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 13:7 Lit covers all things
  2. 1 Corinthians 13:8 Lit prophecies