Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 13

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1 Corinthians 13 . 1 , All gifts , 1 Corinthians 13 . 3 , how excellent soever , are nothing worth without charity; 1 Corinthians 13 . 4 , The praises thereof , 1 Corinthians 13 . 13. and prelation before hope and faith.

1 Corinthians 13:1

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.

1 Corinthians 13:1 · BSB

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1 Corinthians 13:2

If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:2 · BSB

I have the7 parallels

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and though I have all7 parallels

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I am6 parallels

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1 Corinthians 13:3

If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:3 · BSB

though I bestow10 parallels

though I give9 parallels

profiteth6 parallels

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1 Corinthians 13:4

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

1 Corinthians 13:4 · BSB

suffereth11 parallels

is kind12 parallels

envieth15 parallels

vaunteth not itself14 parallels

or , is not rash

is not6 parallels

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1 Corinthians 13:5

It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.

1 Corinthians 13:5 · BSB

behave9 parallels

seeketh14 parallels

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thinketh7 parallels

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1 Corinthians 13:6

Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.

1 Corinthians 13:6 · BSB

Rejoiceth not16 parallels

rejoiceth11 parallels

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in the truth or , "with the truth

1 Corinthians 13:7

It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 Corinthians 13:7 · BSB

Beareth11 parallels

believeth1 parallel

hopeth4 parallels

endureth11 parallels

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1 Corinthians 13:8

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed.

1 Corinthians 13:8 · BSB

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tongues6 parallels

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1 Corinthians 13:9

For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

1 Corinthians 13:9 · BSB

the whole verse18 parallels

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1 Corinthians 13:10

but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.

1 Corinthians 13:10 · BSB

the whole verse10 parallels

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1 Corinthians 13:11

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.

1 Corinthians 13:11 · BSB

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thought or , reasoned

1 Corinthians 13:12

Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

1 Corinthians 13:12 · BSB

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Gr. in a riddle

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1 Corinthians 13:13

And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13:13 · BSB

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hope16 parallels

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge is the classical cross-reference layer — centuries of catchword parallels beneath the site’s quotations, allusions, and echoes. Every reference above also flows into the wider web of connections.

In the wider web6 threads
Intertextuality Pairs
Allusions 1 Corinthians 13:12 → Numbers 12:6-8
Trajectories
Moses (The Prophet Like Unto Me), Veil (Access Through Christ's Flesh), Sensory Access to God (From Sinai's Veil to Zion's Vision)
Chiasms
Shaped 1 Corinthians 13:1–13, 1 Corinthians 13:8–13
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