Chapter 13 - Charity
1 Though I speak with the tongues1 (of men and of angels) and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.[2]
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.
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.
4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind;
charity envieth not;
charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
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.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.[3]
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.
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.
13 And now abideth:
faith,
hope,
charity,
these three; but the greatest (of these) is charity.
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note: Languages; Read: Nag Hammadi - On the Origin of the World vs 7
Read: The Gospel of the Holy Twelve Lection 94:7
Read: Isaiah 51:1-23;