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Verse 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.

I speak

2,3 12.8,16,29,30 14.6 2 Corinthians 12.4 2 Peter 2.18

have not

8.1 Matthew 25.45 Romans 14.15 Galatians 5.6,22 1 Timothy 1.5 1 Peter 4.8

as

14.7,8

Verse 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.

I have the

12.8-10,28 14.1,6-9 Numbers 24.15-24 Matthew 7.22,23

understand

4.1 Matthew 13.11 Romans 11.25 16.25 Ephesians 3.4 6.19 Colossians 1.26 1 Timothy 3.16

and though I have all

12.9 Matthew 17.20 21.21 Mark 11.22,23 Luke 17.5,6

and have

1,3 16.22 Galatians 5.16,22 1 John 4.8,20,21

I am

3 7.19 8.4 Matthew 21.19 2 Corinthians 12.11 Galatians 6.3

Verse 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.

though I bestow

Matthew 6.1-4 23.5 Luke 18.22,28 19.8 21.3,4 John 12.43 Galatians 5.26 Philippians 1.15-18

though I give

Daniel 3.16-28 Matthew 7.22,23 John 13.37 15.13 Acts 21.13 Philippians 1.20,21 2.3

profiteth

Isaiah 57.12 Jeremiah 7.8 John 6.63 1 Timothy 4.8 Hebrews 13.9 James 2.14-17

Verse 4

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

suffereth

Proverbs 10.12 2 Corinthians 6.6 Galatians 5.22 Ephesians 4.2 Colossians 1.11 3.12 2 Timothy 2.25 3.10 2 Timothy 4.2 James 3.17 1 Peter 4.8

is kind

Nehemiah 9.17 Proverbs 19.22 31.20,26 Luke 6.35,36 Ephesians 4.32 Colossians 3.12 1 Peter 3.8 2 Peter 1.7 1 John 3.16-18 4.11

envieth

3.3 Genesis 30.1 37.11 Matthew 27.18 Romans 1.29 13.13 2 Corinthians 12.20 Galatians 5.21,26 Philippians 1.15 1 Timothy 6.4 Titus 3.3 James 3.14-16 4.5 1 Peter 2.1

vaunteth not itself

or, is not rash.

1 Samuel 25.21,22,33,34 1 Kings 20.10,11 Psalms 10.5 Proverbs 13.10 17.14 25.8-10 Ecclesiastes 7.8,9 10.4 Daniel 3.19-22

is not

4.6,18 5.2 8.1 Colossians 2.18 Philippians 2.1-5

Verse 5

Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

behave

7.36 *Gr:; 11.13-16,18,21,22 14.33-40 Isaiah 3.5 Philippians 4.8 2 Thessalonians 3.7

seeketh

10.24,33 12.25 Romans 14.12-15 15.1,2 Galatians 5.13 6.1,2 Philippians 2.3-5,21 2 Timothy 2.10 1 John 3.16,17

is not

Numbers 12.3 16.15 20.10-12 Psalms 106.32,33 Proverbs 14.17 Matthew 5.22 Mark 3.5 James 1.19

thinketh

2 Samuel 10.3 Job 21.27 Jeremiah 11.19 18.18-20 40.13-16 Matthew 9.4 Luke 7.39

Verse 6

Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

Rejoiceth not

1 Samuel 23.19-21 2 Samuel 4.10-12 Psalms 10.3 119.136 Proverbs 14.9 Jeremiah 9.1 13.17 Jeremiah 20.10 Hosea 4.8 7.3 Micah 7.8 Luke 19.41,42 22.5 Romans 1.32 Philippians 3.18

rejoiceth

Exodus 18.9 Joshua 22.22-33 Romans 12.9 2 Corinthians 7.9-16 Philippians 1.4,18 2.17,18 1 Thessalonians 3.6-10 2 John 1.4 3 John 1.3

in the truth

or, "with the truth."

Verse 7

Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

Beareth

4 Numbers 11.12-14 Deuteronomy 1.9 Proverbs 10.12 Song of Solomon 8.6,7 Romans 15.1 Galatians 6.2 Hebrews 13.13 1 Peter 2.24 4.8

believeth

Psalms 119.66

hopeth

Luke 7.37-39,44-46 19.4-10 Romans 8.24

endureth

9.18-22 Genesis 29.20 Job 13.15 Matthew 10.22 2 Corinthians 11.8-12 2 Thessalonians 1.4 2 Timothy 2.3-10,24 3.11 4.5 James 1.12

Verse 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.

never

10,13 Luke 22.32 Galatians 5.6

tongues

1 12.10,28-30 14.39 Acts 2.4 19.6

vanish

Jeremiah 49.7 Hebrews 8.13

Verse 9

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

12 2.9 8.2 Job 11.7,8 26.14 Psalms 40.5 139.6 Proverbs 30.4 Matthew 11.27 Romans 11.34 Ephesians 3.8,18,19 Colossians 2.2,3 1 Peter 1.10-12 1 John 3.2

Verse 10

But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

12 Isaiah 24.23 60.19,20 2 Corinthians 5.7,8 Revelation 21.22,23 22.4,5

Verse 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.

I spake

3.1,2 14.20 Ecclesiastes 11.10 Galatians 4.1

thought

or, reasoned.

Verse 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.

we see

2 Corinthians 3.18 5.7 Philippians 3.12 James 1.23

darkly

Gr. in a riddle.

Judges 14.12-19 Ezekiel 17.2

face

Exodus 33.11 Numbers 12.8 Matthew 5.8 18.10 Romans 8.18 1 John 3.2 Revelation 22.4

now

9,10 John 10.15

Verse 13

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

abideth

3.14 1 Peter 1.21 1 John 2.14,24 3.9

faith

Luke 8.13-15 22.32 Galatians 5.6 Hebrews 10.35,39 11.1-7 1 John 5.1-5

hope

Psalms 42.11 43.5 146.5 Lamentations 3.21-26 Romans 5.4,5 8.24,25 15.13 Colossians 1.5,27 1 Thessalonians 5.8 Hebrews 6.11,19 1 Peter 1.21 1 John 3.3

charity

1-8 8.1,3 2 Corinthians 5.10,15 Galatians 5.6 1 John 2.10 4.7-18

the greatest

8 14.1 16.14 Mark 12.29-31 Luke 10.27 Galatians 5.13-22 Philippians 1.9 Colossians 3.14 1 Timothy 1.5 2 Timothy 1.7 1 John 4.7-9 2 John 1.4-6