![]() ![]() ![]() The rhetoric of this chapter is striking. The function of 1 Cor 13 within the discussion of spiritual gifts is to relativize all the charisms by contrasting them with the more basic, pervasive, and enduring value that gives them their purpose and their effectiveness. the references to knowledge and to behavior). the reference to tongues and prophecy) and into the letter as a whole (cf. All or part of the material may once have been an independent piece in the style of Hellenistic eulogies of virtues, but it is now integrated, by editing, into the context of 1 Cor 12– 14 (cf. * This chapter involves a shift of perspective and a new point. g 13 * So faith, hope, love remain, these three h but the greatest of these is love. At present I know partially then I shall know fully, as I am fully known. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing if tongues, they will cease if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing.ĩFor we know partially and we prophesy partially,ġ0but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.ġ1When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child when I became a man, I put aside childish things.ġ2At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. It is not jealous, is not pompous, it is not inflated, d 5it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, e 6it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.ħIt bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. b 3If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing. a 2And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. 1If I speak in human and angelic tongues * but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal. ![]()
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