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1If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.Cross-references: Matt 25:45 · Rom 14:15 · 1Cor 8:1 · 1Cor 12:8 · 1Cor 12:16 · 1Cor 12:29 · +9 more
2If 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.Cross-references: Num 24:15 · Matt 7:22 · Matt 13:11 · Matt 17:20 · Matt 21:19 · Matt 21:21 · +25 more
3If I give away 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.Cross-references: Isa 57:12 · Jer 7:8 · Dan 3:16 · Matt 6:1 · Matt 7:22 · Matt 23:5 · +16 more
4Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,Cross-references: Gen 30:1 · Gen 37:11 · 1Sam 25:21 · 1Sam 25:33 · 1Ki 20:10 · Neh 9:17 · +47 more
5doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;Cross-references: Num 12:3 · Num 16:15 · Num 20:10 · 2Sam 10:3 · Job 21:27 · Ps 106:32 · +29 more
6doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;Cross-references: Ex 18:9 · Josh 22:22 · 1Sam 23:19 · 2Sam 4:10 · Ps 10:3 · Ps 119:136 · +20 more
7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.Cross-references: Gen 29:20 · Num 11:12 · Deut 1:9 · Job 13:15 · Ps 119:66 · Prov 10:12 · +21 more
8Love 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.Cross-references: Jer 49:7 · Luke 22:32 · Acts 2:4 · Acts 19:6 · 1Cor 12:10 · 1Cor 12:28 · +6 more
9For we know in part and we prophesy in part;Cross-references: Job 11:7 · Job 26:14 · Ps 40:5 · Ps 139:6 · Prov 30:4 · Matt 11:27 · +9 more
10but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.Cross-references: Isa 24:23 · Isa 60:19 · 1Cor 13:12 · 2Cor 5:7 · Rev 21:22 · Rev 22:4
11When 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.Cross-references: Eccl 11:10 · 1Cor 3:1 · 1Cor 14:20 · Gal 4:1
12For 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.Cross-references: Gen 32:30 · Ex 33:11 · Num 12:8 · Judg 14:12 · Ezek 17:2 · Matt 5:8 · +11 more
13But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.Cross-references: Ps 42:11 · Ps 43:5 · Ps 146:5 · Lam 3:21 · Mark 12:29 · Luke 8:13 · +35 more
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