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geneva@1Corinthians:13:1 @ Though (note:)He reasons first of charity, the excellency of which he first shows by this, that without it, all other gifts are as nothing before God. And this he proves partly by an induction, and partly also by an argument taken of the end, for what reason those gifts are given. For, to what purpose are those gifts but to God's glory, and the profit of the Church as is before proved? So that those gifts, without charity, have no right use.(:note) I speak with the tongues of men and of A very earnest amplifying of the matter, as if he said, «If there were any tongues of angels, and I had them, and did not use them to the benefit of my neighbour, it would be nothing else except a vain and prattling type of babbling.» angels, and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a That gives a rude and uncertain sound. tinkling cymbal.

geneva@1Corinthians:13:2 @ And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all (note:)By «faith» he means the gift of doing miracles, and not that faith which justifies, which cannot be void of charity as the other may.(:note) faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

geneva@1Corinthians:13:3 @ And though I feede the poore with all my goods, and though I giue my body, that I be burned, and haue not loue, it profiteth me nothing.

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geneva@1Corinthians:13:5 @ Doth (note:)It is not insolent, or reproachful.(:note) not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

geneva@1Corinthians:13:6 @ Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but (note:)Rejoices at righteousness in the righteous. For by «truth» the Hebrews mean «righteousness».(:note) rejoiceth in the truth;

geneva@1Corinthians:13:7 @ It suffreth all things: it beleeueth all things: it hopeth all things: it endureth all things.

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geneva@1Corinthians:13:10 @ But when that which is perfect, is come, then that which is in part, shalbe abolished.

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