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13 If I [can] speak in the tongues of men and [even] of angels, but have not love (that reasoning, intentional, spiritual devotion such [a]as is inspired by God’s love for and in us), I am only a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

And if I have prophetic powers ([b]the gift of interpreting the divine will and purpose), and understand all the secret truths and mysteries and possess all knowledge, and if I have [sufficient] faith so that I can remove mountains, but have not love (God’s love in me) I am nothing (a useless nobody).

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 13:1 Alexander Souter, Pocket Lexicon.
  2. 1 Corinthians 13:2 G. Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon.

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