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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: 1 Corinthians 13

Chapter 13

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

I speak

2,3 12:8,16,29,30 14:6 2 Corinthians 12:4 2 Peter 2:18

have not

8:1 Matthew 25:45 Romans 14:15 Galatians 5:6,22 1 Timothy 1:5 1 Peter 4:8

as

14:7,8

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

I have the

12:8-10,28 14:1,6-9 Numbers 24:15-24 Matthew 7:22,23

understand

4:1 Matthew 13:11 Romans 11:25 16:25 Ephesians 3:4 6:19 Colossians 1:26 1 Timothy 3:16

and though I have all

12:9 Matthew 17:20 21:21 Mark 11:22,23 Luke 17:5,6

and have

1,3 16:22 Galatians 5:16,22 1 John 4:8,20,21

I am

3 7:19 8:4 Matthew 21:19 2 Corinthians 12:11 Galatians 6:3

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

though I bestow

Matthew 6:1-4 23:5 Luke 18:22,28 19:8 21:3,4 John 12:43 Galatians 5:26 Philippians 1:15-18

though I give

Daniel 3:16-28 Matthew 7:22,23 John 13:37 15:13 Acts 21:13 Philippians 1:20,21 2:3

profiteth

Isaiah 57:12 Jeremiah 7:8 John 6:63 1 Timothy 4:8 Hebrews 13:9 James 2:14-17

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

suffereth

Proverbs 10:12 2 Corinthians 6:6 Galatians 5:22 Ephesians 4:2 Colossians 1:11 3:12 2 Timothy 2:25 3:10 2 Timothy 4:2 James 3:17 1 Peter 4:8

is kind

Nehemiah 9:17 Proverbs 19:22 31:20,26 Luke 6:35,36 Ephesians 4:32 Colossians 3:12 1 Peter 3:8 2 Peter 1:7 1 John 3:16-18 4:11

envieth

3:3 Genesis 30:1 37:11 Matthew 27:18 Romans 1:29 13:13 2 Corinthians 12:20 Galatians 5:21,26 Philippians 1:15 1 Timothy 6:4 Titus 3:3 James 3:14-16 4:5 1 Peter 2:1

vaunteth not itself

or, is not rash.

1 Samuel 25:21,22,33,34 1 Kings 20:10,11 Psalms 10:5 Proverbs 13:10 17:14 25:8-10 Ecclesiastes 7:8,9 10:4 Daniel 3:19-22

is not

4:6,18 5:2 8:1 Colossians 2:18 Philippians 2:1-5

Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

behave

7:36 *Gr:; 11:13-16,18,21,22 14:33-40 Isaiah 3:5 Philippians 4:8 2 Thessalonians 3:7

seeketh

10:24,33 12:25 Romans 14:12-15 15:1,2 Galatians 5:13 6:1,2 Philippians 2:3-5,21 2 Timothy 2:10 1 John 3:16,17

is not

Numbers 12:3 16:15 20:10-12 Psalms 106:32,33 Proverbs 14:17 Matthew 5:22 Mark 3:5 James 1:19

thinketh

2 Samuel 10:3 Job 21:27 Jeremiah 11:19 18:18-20 40:13-16 Matthew 9:4 Luke 7:39

Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

Rejoiceth not

1 Samuel 23:19-21 2 Samuel 4:10-12 Psalms 10:3 119:136 Proverbs 14:9 Jeremiah 9:1 13:17 Jeremiah 20:10 Hosea 4:8 7:3 Micah 7:8 Luke 19:41,42 22:5 Romans 1:32 Philippians 3:18

rejoiceth

Exodus 18:9 Joshua 22:22-33 Romans 12:9 2 Corinthians 7:9-16 Philippians 1:4,18 2:17,18 1 Thessalonians 3:6-10 2 John 1:4 3 John 1:3

in the truth

or, "with the truth."

Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

Beareth

4 Numbers 11:12-14 Deuteronomy 1:9 Proverbs 10:12 Song of Solomon 8:6,7 Romans 15:1 Galatians 6:2 Hebrews 13:13 1 Peter 2:24 4:8

believeth

Psalms 119:66

hopeth

Luke 7:37-39,44-46 19:4-10 Romans 8:24

endureth

9:18-22 Genesis 29:20 Job 13:15 Matthew 10:22 2 Corinthians 11:8-12 2 Thessalonians 1:4 2 Timothy 2:3-10,24 3:11 4:5 James 1:12

Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

never

10,13 Luke 22:32 Galatians 5:6

tongues

1 12:10,28-30 14:39 Acts 2:4 19:6

vanish

Jeremiah 49:7 Hebrews 8:13

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

12 2:9 8:2 Job 11:7,8 26:14 Psalms 40:5 139:6 Proverbs 30:4 Matthew 11:27 Romans 11:34 Ephesians 3:8,18,19 Colossians 2:2,3 1 Peter 1:10-12 1 John 3:2

But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

12 Isaiah 24:23 60:19,20 2 Corinthians 5:7,8 Revelation 21:22,23 22:4,5

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

I spake

3:1,2 14:20 Ecclesiastes 11:10 Galatians 4:1

thought

or, reasoned.

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

we see

2 Corinthians 3:18 5:7 Philippians 3:12 James 1:23

darkly

Gr. in a riddle.

Judges 14:12-19 Ezekiel 17:2

face

Exodus 33:11 Numbers 12:8 Matthew 5:8 18:10 Romans 8:18 1 John 3:2 Revelation 22:4

now

9,10 John 10:15

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

abideth

3:14 1 Peter 1:21 1 John 2:14,24 3:9

faith

Luke 8:13-15 22:32 Galatians 5:6 Hebrews 10:35,39 11:1-7 1 John 5:1-5

hope

Psalms 42:11 43:5 146:5 Lamentations 3:21-26 Romans 5:4,5 8:24,25 15:13 Colossians 1:5,27 1 Thessalonians 5:8 Hebrews 6:11,19 1 Peter 1:21 1 John 3:3

charity

1-8 8:1,3 2 Corinthians 5:10,15 Galatians 5:6 1 John 2:10 4:7-18

the greatest

8 14:1 16:14 Mark 12:29-31 Luke 10:27 Galatians 5:13-22 Philippians 1:9 Colossians 3:14 1 Timothy 1:5 2 Timothy 1:7 1 John 4:7-9 2 John 1:4-6