歌林多前書13 愛的方式
我若能說萬人的方言，並天使的話語，卻沒有愛，我就成了鳴的鑼，響的鈸一般。
2我若有先知講道之能，也明白各樣的奧祕，各樣的知識，而且有全備的信，叫我能夠移山，卻沒有愛，我就算不得甚麼。
3我若將所有的賙濟窮人，又捨己身叫人焚燒，卻沒有愛，仍然與我無益。
4愛是恆久忍耐，又有恩慈；愛是不嫉妒；愛是不自誇，不張狂，
5不做害羞的事，不求自己的益處，不輕易發怒，不計算人的惡，
6不喜歡不義，只喜歡真理；
7凡事包容，凡事相信，凡事盼望，凡事忍耐。
8愛是永不止息。先知講道之能終必歸於無有；說方言之能終必停止；知識也終必歸於無有。
9我們現在所知道的有限，先知所講的也有限，
10等那完全的來到，這有限的必歸於無有了。
11我作孩子的時候，話語像孩子，心思像孩子，意念像孩子，既成了人，就把孩子的事丟棄了。
12我們如今彷彿對著鏡子觀看，糢糊不清（原文作：如同猜謎）；到那時就要面對面了。我如今所知道的有限，到那時就全知道，如同主知道我一樣。
13如今常存的有信，有望，有愛這三樣，其中最大的是愛。
The Way of Love/Corinthians
13
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;[b]
6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Footnotes
a 1 Corinthians 13:3 Some manuscripts deliver up my body [to death] that I may boast
b 1 Corinthians 13:5 Greek irritable and does not count up wrongdoing
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