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| | |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. | | |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. |
| − | | | + | |Prophecies fail. Tongues are silenced. Knowledge vanishes. Love never fails. |
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| | |For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. | | |For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. |
| − | | | + | |Our knowledge and our prophecy are imperfect. |
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| | |But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. | | |But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. |
| − | | | + | |But when the perfect comes, the imperfect will be wiped away. |
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| | |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. | | |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. |
| − | | | + | |When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I understood like a child, I thought like a child. But when I became a man, I put away childish things. |
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| | |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. | | |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. |
| − | | | + | |Now we see through a glass, darkly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know as completely as I am known now. |
| − | | | + | |The phrasing at the beginning of this one is timeless. |
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| | |And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. | | |And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. |
| − | | | + | |And now three things remain: Faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. |
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