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

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Heb. 10:35,39• ³⁵Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompense.
³⁹But *we* are not drawers back to perdition, but of faith to saving the soul. (Heb. 10:35,39)

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1 Peter 1:21• ²¹who by him do believe on God, who has raised him from among the dead and given him glory, that your faith and hope should be in God. (1 Peter 1:21)

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abideth.

1 Cor. 3:14• ¹⁴If the work of any one which he has built upon the foundation shall abide, he shall receive a reward. (1 Cor. 3:14)

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1 Peter 1:21• ²¹who by him do believe on God, who has raised him from among the dead and given him glory, that your faith and hope should be in God. (1 Peter 1:21)

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1 John 2:14,24• ¹⁴I have written to you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.
²⁴As for *you* let that which ye have heard from the beginning abide in you: if what ye have heard from the beginning abides in you, *ye* also shall abide in the Son and in the Father. (1 John 2:14,24)

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1 John 3:9• ⁹Whoever has been begotten of God does not practise sin, because his seed abides in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been begotten of God. (1 John 3:9)

faith.

Luke 8:13‑15• ¹³But those upon the rock, those who when they hear receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who believe for a time, and in time of trial fall away.
¹⁴But that that fell where the thorns were, these are they who having heard go away and are choked under cares and riches and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
¹⁵But that in the good ground, these are they who in an honest and good heart, having heard the word keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience. (Luke 8:13‑15)

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Luke 22:32• ³²but *I* have besought for thee that thy faith fail not; and *thou*, when once thou hast been restored, confirm thy brethren. (Luke 22:32)

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Gal. 5:6• ⁶For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision has any force, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love. (Gal. 5:6)

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Heb. 10:35,39• ³⁵Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompense.
³⁹But *we* are not drawers back to perdition, but of faith to saving the soul. (Heb. 10:35,39)

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Heb. 11:1‑7• ¹Now faith is the substantiating of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
²For in the power of this the elders have obtained testimony.
³By faith we apprehend that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that that which is seen should not take its origin from things which appear.
⁴By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained testimony of being righteous, God bearing testimony to his gifts, and by it, having died, he yet speaks.
⁵By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him; for before his translation he has the testimony that he had pleased God.
⁶But without faith it is impossible to please him. For he that draws near to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them who seek him out.
⁷By faith, Noah, oracularly warned concerning things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his house; by which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. (Heb. 11:1‑7)

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1 John 5:1‑5• ¹Every one that believes that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God; and every one that loves him that has begotten loves also him that is begotten of him.
²Hereby know we that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.
³For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not grievous.
⁴For all that has been begotten of God gets the victory over the world; and this is the victory which has gotten the victory over the world, our faith.
⁵Who is he that gets the victory over the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God? (1 John 5:1‑5)

hope.

Psa. 42:11• ¹¹Why art thou cast down, my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. (Psa. 42:11)

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Psa. 43:5• ⁵Why art thou cast down, my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. (Psa. 43:5)

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Psa. 146:5• ⁵Blessed is he who hath the *God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Jehovah his God, (Psa. 146:5)

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Lam. 3:21‑26• ²¹--This I recall to heart, therefore have I hope.
²²It is of Jehovah's loving-kindness we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not;
²³they are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
²⁴Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
²⁵Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
²⁶It is good that one should both wait, and that in silence, for the salvation of Jehovah. (Lam. 3:21‑26)

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Rom. 5:4‑5• ⁴and endurance, experience; and experience, hope;
⁵and hope does not make ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given to us: (Rom. 5:4‑5)

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Rom. 8:24‑25• ²⁴For we have been saved in hope; but hope seen is not hope; for what any one sees, why does he also hope?
²⁵But if what we see not we hope, we expect in patience. (Rom. 8:24‑25)

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Rom. 15:13• ¹³Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that ye should abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. (Rom. 15:13)

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Col. 1:5,27• ⁵on account of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens; of which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the glad tidings,
²⁷to whom God would make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you the hope of glory: (Col. 1:5,27)

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1 Thess. 5:8• ⁸but *we* being of the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as helmet the hope of salvation; (1 Thess. 5:8)

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Heb. 6:11,19• ¹¹But we desire earnestly that each one of you shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end;
¹⁹which we have as anchor of the soul, both secure and firm, and entering into that within the veil, (Heb. 6:11,19)

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1 Peter 1:21• ²¹who by him do believe on God, who has raised him from among the dead and given him glory, that your faith and hope should be in God. (1 Peter 1:21)

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1 John 3:3• ³And every one that has this hope in him purifies himself, even as *he* is pure. (1 John 3:3)

charity.

1 Cor. 13:1‑8• ¹If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
²And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
³And if I shall dole out all my goods in food, and if I deliver up my body that I may be burned, but have not love, I profit nothing.
⁴Love has long patience, is kind; love is not emulous of others; love is not insolent and rash, is not puffed up,
⁵does not behave in an unseemly manner, does not seek what is its own, is not quickly provoked, does not impute evil,
⁶does not rejoice at iniquity but rejoices with the truth,
⁷bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
⁸Love never fails; but whether prophecies, they shall be done away; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be done away. (1 Cor. 13:1‑8)

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1 Cor. 8:1,3• ¹But concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
³But if any one love God, *he* is known of him): (1 Cor. 8:1,3)

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2 Cor. 5:10,15• ¹⁰For we must all be manifested before the judgment-seat of the Christ, that each may receive the things done in the body, according to those he has done, whether it be good or evil.
¹⁵and he died for all, that they who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them and has been raised. (2 Cor. 5:10,15)

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Gal. 5:6• ⁶For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision has any force, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love. (Gal. 5:6)

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1 John 2:10• ¹⁰He that loves his brother abides in light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him. (1 John 2:10)

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1 John 4:7‑18• ⁷Beloved, let us love one another; because love is of God, and every one that loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.
⁸He that loves not has not known God; for God is love.
⁹Herein as to us has been manifested the love of God, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
¹⁰Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.
¹¹Beloved, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
¹²No one has seen God at any time: if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.
¹³Hereby we know that we abide in him and he in us, that he has given to us of his Spirit.
¹⁴And *we* have seen, and testify, that the Father has sent the Son as Saviour of the world.
¹⁵Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
¹⁶And *we* have known and have believed the love which God has to us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
¹⁷Herein has love been perfected with us that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, that even as *he* is, *we* also are in this world.
¹⁸There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has torment, and he that fears has not been made perfect in love. (1 John 4:7‑18)

the greatest.

1 Cor. 13:8• ⁸Love never fails; but whether prophecies, they shall be done away; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be done away. (1 Cor. 13:8)

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1 Cor. 14:1• ¹Follow after love, and be emulous of spiritual manifestations, but rather that ye may prophesy. (1 Cor. 14:1)

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1 Cor. 16:14• ¹⁴Let all things ye do be done in love. (1 Cor. 16:14)

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Mark 12:29‑31• ²⁹And Jesus answered him, The first commandment of all is, Hear, Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord;
³⁰and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding, and with all thy strength. This is the first commandment.
³¹And a second like it is this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is not another commandment greater than these. (Mark 12:29‑31)

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Luke 10:27• ²⁷But he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thine understanding; and thy neighbour as thyself. (Luke 10:27)

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Gal. 5:13‑22• ¹³For *ye* have been called to liberty, brethren; only do not turn liberty into an opportunity to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
¹⁴For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;
¹⁵but if ye bite and devour one another, see that ye are not consumed one of another.
¹⁶But I say, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall no way fulfil flesh's lust.
¹⁷For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these things are opposed one to the other, that ye should not do those things which ye desire;
¹⁸but if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under law.
¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,
²⁰idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, disputes, schools of opinion,
²¹envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these; as to which I tell you beforehand, even as I also have said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom.
²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity, (Gal. 5:13‑22)

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Phil. 1:9• ⁹And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in full knowledge and all intelligence, (Phil. 1:9)

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Col. 3:14• ¹⁴And to all these add love, which is the bond of perfectness. (Col. 3:14)

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1 Tim. 1:5• ⁵But the end of what is enjoined is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and unfeigned faith; (1 Tim. 1:5)

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2 Tim. 1:7• ⁷For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power, and of love, and of wise discretion. (2 Tim. 1:7)

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1 John 4:7‑9• ⁷Beloved, let us love one another; because love is of God, and every one that loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.
⁸He that loves not has not known God; for God is love.
⁹Herein as to us has been manifested the love of God, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. (1 John 4:7‑9)

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2 John 4‑6• ⁴I rejoiced greatly that I have found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received commandment from the Father.
⁵And now I beseech thee, lady, not as writing to thee a new commandment, but that which we have had from the beginning, that we should love one another.
⁶And this is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, according as ye have heard from the beginning, that ye might walk in it. (2 John 4‑6)

• {v.11-13} Clearly the drift of the passage is not to cast uncertainty on our present measure of knowledge, but to set forth its partial character, as compared with the fullness in glory. (“Notes on 1 Corinthians 5:9-13” by W. Kelly)

• In the perfect state faith will be changed to sight, and thus faith will have its end. Hope will end in fruition. Love alone will abide. Faith and hope make very good traveling companions, but we part company with them at the door of heaven. We go in with one thing -love. (“1 Corinthians 13” by H. Smith)

• But scripture cannot be broken; and faith is the evidence or conviction of things not seen, as hope seen is not hope. (Rom. 8; Heb. 11) Faith and hope therefore refer only to the present state, love alone to eternity as well as to the present. (“Notes on 1 Corinthians 5:9-13” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And now abide faith, hope, love; these three things; and the greater of these is love.

W. Kelly Translation

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But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but [the] greater ofa these [is] love.

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It is the greater "of," not "than," these; and hence our "greatest."