16 Therefore confess your trespasses to one another, and pray on behalf of one another, that you may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man prevails; much in its working.
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James 5:16
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
1 If I speak with the languages of men and of messengers, but do not have love, I have become like noisy brass or a clanging cymbal.
2 And if I have the gift of prophecy and if I know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so-then to remove mountains, but if I do not have love, I am nothing.
3 And if I handout all my possessed things and if I give my body in order that I would be burned, but if I do not have love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love has patience. It is kind. Love is not jealous. Love does not brag. It is not arrogant.
5 It does not behave improperly. It does not seek its own. It does not irritate. It does not reason evil.
6 It does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices together with the truth.
7 It is forbearing all things, is believing all things, is hoping for all things, is enduring all things.
8 Love never falls short.
But if there are prophesies, they will be done-away; if there are foreign languages, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done-away.
9 But we know partially and we prophesy partially; 10 but whenever the completed thing comes, then what is partially will be done-away. 11 When I was an infant, I was speaking like an infant, I had the mindset like that of an infant, I was reasoning like an infant. Now that I have become a man, I have done-away-with the things of the infant. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. I know now partially, but then I will fully know just-as I was also fully known.
13 But these three are remaining now: faith, hope, love, and the greater of these is love.
But if there are prophesies, they will be done-away; if there are foreign languages, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done-away.
9 But we know partially and we prophesy partially; 10 but whenever the completed thing comes, then what is partially will be done-away. 11 When I was an infant, I was speaking like an infant, I had the mindset like that of an infant, I was reasoning like an infant. Now that I have become a man, I have done-away-with the things of the infant. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. I know now partially, but then I will fully know just-as I was also fully known.
13 But these three are remaining now: faith, hope, love, and the greater of these is love.