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the Week of Proper 4 / Ordinary 9
the Week of Proper 4 / Ordinary 9
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Passage Lookup: 1 Corinthians 13
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1 Corinthians 13:1
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If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:2
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If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God's secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn't love others, I would be nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:3
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If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it;[a] but if I didn't love others, I would have gained nothing.
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1 Corinthians 13:4
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Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud
1 Corinthians 13:5
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or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.
1 Corinthians 13:6
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It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.
1 Corinthians 13:7
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Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
1 Corinthians 13:8
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Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages[b] and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever!
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1 Corinthians 13:9
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Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture!
1 Corinthians 13:10
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But when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will become useless.
1 Corinthians 13:11
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When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things.
1 Corinthians 13:12
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Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.[c] All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.
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1 Corinthians 13:13
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Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.
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