Love: The Superior Way
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And if I donate all my goods to feed the poor,
and if I give my body in order to boast(a)
but do not have love, I gain nothing.
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7 and if I give my body in order to boast(a)
but do not have love, I gain nothing.
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Love never ends.(L)
But as for prophecies,
they will come to an end;
as for languages, they will cease;
as for knowledge, it will come to an end.
9 But as for prophecies,
they will come to an end;
as for languages, they will cease;
as for knowledge, it will come to an end.
For we know in part,
and we prophesy in part.
10 and we prophesy in part.
But when the perfect comes,
the partial will come to an end.
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When I was a child,
I spoke like a child,
I thought like a child,
I reasoned like a child.
When I became a man,
I put aside childish things.
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I spoke like a child,
I thought like a child,
I reasoned like a child.
When I became a man,
I put aside childish things.
Footnotes:
a.
1 Corinthians 13:3: Other mss read body to be burned
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1 Corinthians 13:12: Or indirectly
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1 Corinthians 13:12: Ancient mirrors were normally made out of polished metals and were not as clear as modern ones.
Cross references:
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1 Corinthians 13:2:
1 Corinthians 14:1; 1 Corinthians 14:3-6; 1 Corinthians 14:22-39; Ephesians 4:11; 1 Thessalonians 5:20