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1. If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
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1. Though G1437 I speak G2980 with the G3588 tongues G1100 of men G444 and G2532 of angels G32 , and G1161 have G2192 not G3361 charity G26 , I am become G1096 as sounding G2278 brass G5475 , or G2228 a tinkling G214 cymbal G2950 .
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2. 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 don't have love, I am nothing.
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2. And G2532 though G1437 I have G2192 the gift of prophecy G4394 , and G2532 understand G1492 all G3956 mysteries G3466 , and G2532 all G3956 knowledge G1108 ; and G2532 though G1437 I have G2192 all G3956 faith G4102 , so that G5620 I could remove G3179 mountains G3735 , and G1161 have G2192 not G3361 charity G26 , I am G1510 nothing G3762 .
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3. If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.
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3. And G2532 though G1437 I bestow all my goods to feed G5595 G3956 G3450 G5224 the poor, and G2532 though G1437 I give G3860 my G3450 body G4983 to G2443 be burned G2545 , and G2532 have G2192 not G3361 charity G26 , it profiteth G5623 me nothing G3762 .
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4. Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,
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4. Charity G26 suffereth long G3114 , and is kind G5541 ; charity G26 envieth G2206 not G3756 ; charity G26 vaunteth not itself G4068 G3756 , is not G3756 puffed up G5448 ,
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5. doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
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5. Doth not G3756 behave itself unseemly G807 , seeketh G2212 not G3756 her own G1438 , is not G3756 easily provoked G3947 , thinketh G3049 no G3756 evil G2556 ;
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6. doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
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6. Rejoiceth G5463 not G3756 in G1909 iniquity G93 , but G1161 rejoiceth G4796 in the G3588 truth G225 ;
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7. bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
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7. Beareth G4722 all things G3956 , believeth G4100 all things G3956 , hopeth G1679 all things G3956 , endureth G5278 all things G3956 .
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8. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.
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8. Charity G26 never G3763 faileth G1601 : but G1161 whether G1535 there be prophecies G4394 , they shall fail G2673 ; whether G1535 there be tongues G1100 , they shall cease G3973 ; whether G1535 there be knowledge G1108 , it shall vanish away G2673 .
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9. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
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9. For G1063 we know G1097 in G1537 part G3313 , and G2532 we prophesy G4395 in G1537 part G3313 .
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10. but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.
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10. But G1161 when G3752 that which is perfect G5046 is come G2064 , then G5119 that G3588 which is in G1537 part G3313 shall be done away G2673 .
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11. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.
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11. When G3753 I was G2252 a child G3516 , I spake G2980 as G5613 a child G3516 , I understood G5426 as G5613 a child G3516 , I thought G3049 as G5613 a child G3516 : but G1161 when G3753 I became G1096 a man G435 , I put away G2673 childish things G3588 G3516 .
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12. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.
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12. For G1063 now G737 we see G991 through G1223 a glass G2072 , darkly G1722 G135 ; but G1161 then G5119 face G4383 to G4314 face G4383 : now G737 I know G1097 in G1537 part G3313 ; but G1161 then G5119 shall I know G1921 even as G2531 also G2532 I am known G1921 .
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13. But now faith, hope, and love remain�these three. The greatest of these is love.
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13. And G1161 now G3570 abideth G3306 faith G4102 , hope G1680 , charity G26 , these G5023 three G5140 ; but G1161 the greatest G3187 of these G5130 is charity G26 .
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