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If 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)

[a]Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, [love] is not pompous, it is not inflated,(B) it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,(C)

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  1. 13:4–7 This paragraph is developed by personification and enumeration, defining love by what it does or does not do. The Greek contains fifteen verbs; it is natural to translate many of them by adjectives in English.

If I give all I possess to the poor(A) and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[a](B) but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient,(C) love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.(D) It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking,(E) it is not easily angered,(F) it keeps no record of wrongs.(G)

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  1. 1 Corinthians 13:3 Some manuscripts body to the flames