1. Korinther Kapitel 13 -

CHAP. XIII.

1 All giftes, 2. 3 how excellent soeuer, are nothing worth without charitie. 4 The praises therof, and 13 prelation before hope & faith.

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¹ 1Though I speake with the tongues of men & of Angels, and haue not charity, I am become as sounding brasse or a tinkling cymbal.

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² And though I haue the gift of prophesie, and vnderstand all mysteries and all knowledge: and though I haue all faith, so that I could remooue mountaines, and haue no charitie, I am nothing.

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³ And though I bestowe all my goods to feede the poore, and though I giue my body to bee burned, and haue not charitie, it profiteth me nothing.

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⁴ Charitie suffereth long, and is kinde: charitie enuieth not: charitie ||vaunteth not it selfe, is not puffed vp, [ ||Or, is not rash. ]

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⁵ Doeth not behaue it selfe vnseemly, seeketh not her owne, is not easily prouoked, thinketh no euill,

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⁶ Reioyceth not in iniquitie, but reioyceth || in the trueth: [ || Or, with the trueth.]

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⁷ Beareth all things, beleeueth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

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⁸ Charitie neuer faileth: but whether there be prophesies, they shall faile; whether there bee tongues, they shall cease; whether there bee knowledge, it shall vanish away.

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

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¹⁰ But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part, shalbe done away.

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¹¹ When I was a childe, I spake as a childe, I vnderstood as a childe, I ||thought as a childe: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. [ || Or, reasoned.]

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¹² For now we see through a glasse, ⁺darkely: but then face to face: now I know in part, but then shall I know euen as also I am knowen. [⁺Gr. in a riddle.]

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¹³ And now abideth faith, hope, charitie, these three, but the greatest of these is charitie.