Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
13 1 If I speak in the tongues of humans and of angels, but I do not have love, I have become a sounding brass [gong] or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but I do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I dole-out[a] all my possessions, and if I hand-over[b] my body so that I may boast[c], but I do not have love, I am profited nothing.
The Way Love Behaves
4 Love is patient. Love shows-kindness. Love does not envy[d], does not brag, is not puffed-up, 5 does not behave-dishonorably[e], does not seek its own things, is not provoked[f], does not count[g] the bad, 6 does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices-with the truth, 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love Is Permanent; Gifts Are Temporary. Be Pursuing Love
8 Love never fails. But if there are prophecies, they will be set-aside[h]. If there are tongues, they will cease[i]. If there is knowledge, it will be set-aside. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part— 10 but when the complete[j] thing comes, the thing in part will be set-aside. 11 When I was a child, I was speaking like a child, thinking like a child, counting[k] like[l] a child— when I have become[m] a man, I have set-aside the things of the child. 12 For now we are seeing through[n] a mirror, in an enigma[o]— but then face to face. Now I know in part— but then I will know-fully, just as I also was fully-known. 13 But now[p] these three are remaining— faith, hope, love. But love is the greater of these.
Jesus Says: Today This Scripture Is Fulfilled In Your Ears. They Drive Him Out
21 And He began to say to them that “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your ears”. 22 And they all were[a] testifying concerning Him, and marveling at the words of [b] grace proceeding from His mouth. And they were saying, “Is not this One Joseph’s son?” 23 And He said to them, “You will surely speak this proverb to Me: ‘Physician, cure yourself’. Do also here in your hometown all-that we heard having taken place in Capernaum”. 24 But He said, “Truly I say to you that no prophet is acceptable[c] in his hometown. 25 And I say to you in accordance with [God’s] truth— there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah when the heaven was shut for three years and six months, when a great famine took place over all the land. 26 And Elijah was sent to none[d] of them, except to [the village of] Zarephath of-Sidon, to a widow woman. 27 And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet. And none of them was cleansed, except Naaman the Syrian”. 28 And they were all filled with fury in the synagogue while hearing these things. 29 And having arisen, they drove Him outside of the city, and led Him up to the brow of the hill on which their city had been built so as to throw Him down the cliff. 30 But He, having gone through the middle of them, was proceeding.
Disciples' Literal New Testament: Serving Modern Disciples by More Fully Reflecting the Writing Style of the Ancient Disciples, Copyright © 2011 Michael J. Magill. All Rights Reserved. Published by Reyma Publishing