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Ok. This is the last I’m going to do of this. Here are the different versions I’ve collected, verses 4-8 side by side:
NAB – New American Bible version
ESV – English Standard Version
KJV – King James Version Study Bible, Red-letter Edition
NIV – New International Version
Not Sure: 4: Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful;
NAB: 4: Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated,
ESV: 4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
KJV: 4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
NIV: 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
Not Sure: 5: it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
NAB: 5: it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,
ESV: 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
KJV: 5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
NIV: 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Not Sure: 6: it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.
NAB: 6: it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.
ESV: 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
KJV: 6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
NIV: 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
Not Sure: 7: Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
NAB: 7: It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
ESV: 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
KJV: 7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
NIV: 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Not Sure: 8: Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
NAB: 8: Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing.
ESV: 8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
KJV: 8 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.
NIV: 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
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