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1 Corinthians 13 is the thirteenth chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians in the New Testament of the ChristianBible. It is authored byPaul the Apostle and Sosthenes in Ephesus. This chapter covers the subject of Love. In the original Greek, the word ἀγάπηagape is used throughout the “Ο ύμνος της αγάπης”. This is translated into English as “charity” in the King James version; but the word “love” is preferred by most other translations, both earlier and more recent.[1]
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The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 13 verses.
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or clanging cymbal resounding in the wind. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and can understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have faith, that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I give all I possess to the poor, and surrender my body to the flames,[2] but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke 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 in a mirror, darkly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
This chapter of 1 Corinthians is one of many definitional sources for the word agape when used to refer to divine love.[3] Introducing his homage to love in 1 Corinthians 12:31, Paul describes agape as “a more excellent way”.
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