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title: 1 Corinthians 13
slug: kjv-nt/1-corinthians-13
createdAt: 2024-09-11T03:15:45.861Z
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**1 **Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become *as* sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. **2 **And though I have *the gift of* prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. **3 **And though I bestow all my goods to feed *the poor*, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

**4 **Charity suffereth long, *and* is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, **5 **Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; **6 **Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; **7 **Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

**8 **Charity never faileth: but whether *there be* prophecies, they shall fail; whether *there be* tongues, they shall cease; whether *there be* knowledge, it shall vanish away. **9 **For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. **10 **But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. **11 **When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. **12 **For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. **13 **And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these *is* charity.