And though I feed the poor with all my goods, and though I give my body, that I be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing.

[a]Love [b]suffereth long: it is bountiful: love envieth not: love doth not boast itself: it is not puffed up:

It doth [c]no uncomely thing: it seeketh not her own thing: it is not provoked to anger: it thinketh no evil:

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 13:4 He describeth the force and nature of charity, partly by a comparison of contraries, and partly by the effects of itself: whereby the Corinthians may understand, both how profitable it is in the Church, and how necessary and also how far they are from it: and therefore how vainly and without cause they are proud.
  2. 1 Corinthians 13:4 Word for word deferreth wrath.
  3. 1 Corinthians 13:5 It is not contumelious.

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