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Holman Christian Standard Bible

1 Corinthians 13 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

Love: The Superior Way

1. If I speak human or angelic languagesbut do not have love, I am a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

2. If I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteriesand all knowledge,and if I have all faithso that I can move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.

3. And if I donate all my goods to feed the poor,and if I give my body in order to boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4. Love is patient, love is kind.Love does not envy, is not boastful, is not conceited,

5. does not act improperly,is not selfish, is not provoked, and does not keep a record of wrongs.

6. Love finds no joy in unrighteousnessbut rejoices in the truth.

7. It bears all things, believes all things,hopes all things, endures all things.

8. Love never ends. But as for prophecies,they will come to an end;as for languages, they will cease;as for knowledge, it will come to an end.

9. For we know in part,and we prophesy in part.

10. But when the perfect comes,the partial will come to an end.

11. When 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 put aside childish things.

12. For now we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. Now I know in part,but then I will know fully, as I am fully known.

13. Now these three remain:faith, hope, and love.But the greatest of these is love.