Sept. 17
1 Corinthians 13
1Co 13:1 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.
1Co 13:2 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.
1Co 13:3 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.
1Co 13:4 Love is
patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not
proud,
1Co 13:5 doesn't behave
itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked,
takes no account of evil;
1Co 13:6 doesn't
rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
1Co 13:7 bears all
things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
1Co 13:8 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.
1Co 13:9 For we know in
part, and we prophesy in part;
1Co 13:10 but when that
which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done
away with.
1Co 13:11 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.
1Co 13:12 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.
1Co 13:13 But now
faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is
love.