a[Prov. 10:12; 17:9; 1 Thess. 5:14; 2 Tim. 2:10; 1 Pet. 4:8]
b[2 Cor. 6:6; Gal. 5:22; Eph. 4:32; Col. 3:12]
cActs 7:9
dSee ch. 4:6
eSee ch. 10:24
f[Rom. 4:6; 2 Cor. 5:19]
h[Rom. 1:32; 2 Thess. 2:12]
i[2 John 4; 3 John 3, 4]
jch. 9:12
k[See ver. 4 above]
l[ch. 8:2]
m[John 15:15]
nJames 1:23; [Num. 12:8; Job 36:26; 2 Cor. 3:18; 5:7]
o1 John 3:2; See Matt. 5:8
pSee ch. 8:3

‏ 1 Corinthians 13:4-13

4 aLove is patient and bkind; love cdoes not envy or boast; it dis not arrogant 5or rude. It edoes not insist on its own way; it fis not irritable or resentful; ▼
▼Greek  irritable and does not count up wrongdoing
 6it hdoes not rejoice at wrongdoing, but irejoices with the truth. 7 jLove bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, kendures all things.

8Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9For lwe know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but mwhen the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11When 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 gave up childish ways. 12For nnow we see in a mirror dimly, but othen face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as pI have been fully known.

13So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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