The Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| The First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians |
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| [1] | IF I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. |
| [2] | And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. |
| [3] | And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to 1 be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing. |
| [4] | Love suffereth long, and is king; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, |
| [5] | doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil; |
| [6] | rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth; |
| [7] | beareth 2 all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. |
| [8] | Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall be done away. |
| [9] | For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; |
| [10] | but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away. |
| [11] | When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things. |
| [12] | For now we see in a mirror, darkly; 3 but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known. |
| [13] | But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest 4 of these is love. |
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