Love Is The Greatest Gift

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1 Corinthians 13:1 - 13 (ESV) Chapter 13The Way of Love 13 1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2And if I have a[ch. 14:1, 39; Matt. 7:22]; See Acts 2:18prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, bMatt. 17:20; Mark 11:23; [Luke 17:6]so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3c[Matt. 6:2]If I give away all I have, and dDan. 3:28if I deliver up my body to be burned,[D] but have not love, I gain nothing. 4e[Prov. 10:12; 17:9; 1 Thess. 5:14; 2 Tim. 2:10; 1 Pet. 4:8]Love is patient and f[2 Cor. 6:6; Gal. 5:22; Eph. 4:32; Col. 3:12]kind; love gActs 7:9does not envy or boast; it hSee ch. 4:6is not arrogant 5or rude. It iSee ch. 10:24does not insist on its own way; it j[Rom. 4:6; 2 Cor. 5:19]is not irritable or resentful;[E] 6it k[Rom. 1:32; 2 Thess. 2:12]does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but l[2 John 4; 3 John 3, 4]rejoices with the truth. 7mch. 9:12Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, e[See ver. 4 above]endures all things. 8Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9For n[ch. 8:2]we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but o[John 15:15]when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12For pJames 1:23; [Num. 12:8; Job 36:26; 2 Cor. 3:18; 5:7]now we see in a mirror dimly, but q1 John 3:2; See Matt. 5:8then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as rSee ch. 8:3I have been fully known. 13So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:1 - 13 (ESV)