1Co 13:1 | All gifts, |
1Co 13:1 LOVE-HATRED MUSIC | ¶ Though I speak1 with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not2 charity, I am become as3 sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. |
1Co 13:2 | And though I have the4 gift of prophecy, and understand5 all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all6 faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have7 not charity, I am8 nothing. |
1Co 13:3 | how excellent soever, are nothing worth without charity. |
1Co 13:3 LIBERALITY-PARSIMONY-COVETOUSNESS SUFFERING FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS SAKE | And though I bestow9 all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give10 my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth11 me nothing. |
1Co 13:4 | The praises thereof, |
1Co 13:4 ENVY KINDNESS-CRUELTY MEEKNESS-RETALIATION | ¶ Charity suffereth12 long, and is kind13; charity envieth14 not; charity vaunteth not itself15, is not16 puffed up, |
1Co 13:5 CONDUCT, CHRISTIAN SELFISHNESS-UNSELFISHNESS | Doth not behave17 itself unseemly, seeketh18 not her own, is not19 easily provoked, thinketh20 no evil; |
1Co 13:6 JOY-SORROW | Rejoiceth not21 in iniquity, but rejoiceth22 in the truth23; |
1Co 13:7 ALL THINGS MEEKNESS-RETALIATION | Beareth24 all things, believeth25 all things, hopeth26 all things, endureth27 all things. |
1Co 13:8 KNOWLEDGE-IGNORANCE TRANSIENT-ENDURING | ¶ Charity never28 faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues29, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish30 away. |
1Co 13:9 | 31For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. |
1Co 13:10 | ¶32But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. |
1Co 13:11 CHILDISHNESS DETERIORATION-DEVELOPMENT | When I was a child, I spake33 as a child, I understood as a child, I thought34 as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. |
1Co 13:12 BLINDNESS-VISION MIRRORS MYSTERIES-REVELATIONS MYSTERIES-REVELATIONS | For now we see35 through a glass, darkly36; but then face37 to face: now38 I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. |
1Co 13:13 | and prelation before hope and faith. |
1Co 13:13 HOPE-DESPAIR LOVE-HATRED TRANSIENT-ENDURING | And now abideth39 faith40, hope41, charity42, these three; but the greatest43 of these is charity. |