These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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1 Corinthians 13
Brit Hadashah 13 verses
- 1 If I can speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but am destitute of Love, I have but become a loud-sounding trumpet or a clanging cymbal.
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If I possess the of prophecy and am versed in all mysteries and all knowledge, and have such absolute that I can remove mountains, but am destitute of Love, I am nothing.
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1 Corinthians 13:3 Matthew 17:20 1 John 4:8 Matthew 21:21 1 Corinthians 16:22 Galatians 5:16 1 Corinthians 12:8-10 Ephesians 3:4 Matthew 7:22-23 1 Corinthians 14:6-9 Romans 16:25 2 Corinthians 12:11 Colossians 1:26 Numbers 24:15-24 Ephesians 6:19 Matthew 13:11 Matthew 21:19 Galatians 6:3 1 Corinthians 14:1-2 1 Corinthians 12:28 Luke 17:5-6 1 Corinthians 14:39 1 Corinthians 7:19 Mark 11:22-23 Galatians 5:22 1 Timothy 3:16 1 Corinthians 4:1 1 John 4:20-21 1 Corinthians 13:1 1 Corinthians 8:4 Romans 11:25 -
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And if I distribute all my possessions to the poor, and give up my body to be burned, but am destitute of Love, it profits me nothing.
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Love is patient and kind. Love knows neither envy nor jealousy. Love is not forward and self-assertive, nor boastful and conceited.
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1 Peter 4:8 Colossians 3:12 Proverbs 10:12 1 John 4:11 1 Thessalonians 5:14 Ephesians 4:32 2 Corinthians 6:6 Proverbs 17:9 1 Corinthians 4:6 1 Peter 3:8 Nehemiah 9:17 Proverbs 31:26 Colossians 2:18 Daniel 3:19-22 2 Corinthians 12:20 1 Corinthians 5:2 Galatians 5:21-22 Genesis 30:1 Proverbs 17:14 2 Timothy 2:25 Ecclesiastes 10:4 1 Timothy 6:4 Genesis 37:11 Luke 6:35-36 1 Samuel 25:21-22 Titus 3:3 Ephesians 4:2 1 Corinthians 3:3 1 Kings 20:10-11 Matthew 27:18 James 3:14-17 1 Corinthians 8:1 Proverbs 19:22 Proverbs 31:20 Philippians 1:15 Colossians 1:11 Proverbs 25:8-10 2 Timothy 4:2 1 Corinthians 4:18 Proverbs 13:10 2 Peter 1:7 1 Samuel 25:33-34 2 Timothy 3:10 Ecclesiastes 7:8-9 Psalm 10:5 Galatians 5:26 James 4:5 1 John 3:16-18 Acts 7:9 1 Peter 2:1 Philippians 2:1-5 Romans 13:13 Romans 1:29 -
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She does not behave unbecomingly, nor seek to aggrandize herself, nor blaze out in passionate anger, nor brood over wrongs.
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1 Corinthians 10:24 Philippians 2:21 James 1:19 1 John 3:16-17 2 Samuel 10:3 1 Corinthians 11:21-22 Psalm 106:32-33 Philippians 2:3-5 2 Corinthians 5:19 Proverbs 14:17 1 Corinthians 12:25 Isaiah 3:5 Mark 3:5 Matthew 9:4 Philippians 4:8 Romans 15:1-2 Jeremiah 18:18-20 Jeremiah 40:13-16 Romans 14:12-15 1 Corinthians 14:33-40 Galatians 5:13 1 Corinthians 7:36 Luke 7:39 Jeremiah 11:19 Job 21:27 1 Corinthians 11:18 1 Corinthians 10:33 Matthew 5:22 Galatians 6:1-2 2 Thessalonians 3:7 Numbers 20:10-12 2 Timothy 2:10 1 Corinthians 11:13-16 Numbers 16:15 -
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She finds no pleasure in injustice done to others, but joyfully sides with the .
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2 John 1:4 2 Thessalonians 2:12 Romans 1:32 Proverbs 14:9 Luke 19:41-42 Psalm 10:3 Philippians 2:17-18 Romans 12:9 1 Thessalonians 3:6-10 Hosea 4:8 Jeremiah 13:17 Joshua 22:22-33 Philippians 3:18 Luke 22:5 2 Samuel 4:10-12 Psalm 119:136 2 Corinthians 7:9-16 1 Samuel 23:19-21 Jeremiah 9:1 Philippians 1:18 Jeremiah 20:10 Micah 7:8 Philippians 1:4 3 John 1:3-4 Hosea 7:3 Exodus 18:9 -
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She knows how to be silent. She is full of trust, full of , full of patient endurance.
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1 Peter 4:8 2 Timothy 2:24 1 Corinthians 13:4 2 Timothy 2:3-10 Psalm 119:66 1 Corinthians 9:12 Galatians 6:2 Proverbs 10:12 1 Peter 2:24 Numbers 11:12-14 Song of Solomon 8:6-7 Genesis 29:20 Hebrews 13:13 2 Timothy 4:5 Romans 8:24 Luke 7:37-39 1 Corinthians 9:18-22 2 Thessalonians 1:4 Job 13:15 Luke 19:4-10 Luke 7:44-46 Romans 15:1 2 Corinthians 11:8-12 2 Timothy 3:11 James 1:12 Matthew 10:22 Deuteronomy 1:9 - 8 Love never fails. But if there are prophecies, they will be done away with; if there are languages, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be brought to an end.
- 9 For our knowledge is imperfect, and so is our prophesying;
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but when the state of things is come, all that is imperfect will be brought to an end.
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When I was a child, I talked like a child, felt like a child, reasoned like a child: when I became a man, I put from me childish ways.
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- 12 For the present we see things as if in a mirror, and are puzzled; but then we shall see them face to face. For the present the knowledge I gain is imperfect; but then I shall fully, even as I am fully known.
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And so there remain Faith, Hope, Love—these three; and of these the greatest is Love.
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1 Corinthians 16:14 1 Corinthians 13:1-8 1 John 4:7-18 Colossians 3:14 Galatians 5:6 Mark 12:29-31 2 John 1:4-6 Lamentations 3:21-26 Hebrews 6:19 1 John 5:1-5 1 Thessalonians 5:8 Galatians 5:13-22 Philippians 1:9 2 Corinthians 5:10 1 Peter 1:21 1 John 2:10 2 Timothy 1:7 1 John 3:3 Hebrews 6:11 1 Corinthians 3:14 1 John 2:14 1 John 2:24 1 Timothy 1:5 1 John 3:9 Colossians 1:5 Colossians 1:27 2 Corinthians 5:15 1 Corinthians 8:3 Hebrews 10:35 1 Corinthians 8:1 Luke 22:32 Psalm 43:5 1 Corinthians 14:1 Luke 10:27 Luke 8:13-15 Romans 15:13 Psalm 42:11 Hebrews 10:39 Romans 8:24-25 Psalm 146:5 Romans 5:4-5