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title: "Abbott"
description: "Verse 1 Charity; true Christian love. Verse 2 All knowledge; all religious knowledge.--So that I could remove mountains, referring, perhaps, to our Savior"
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**Verse 1**
*Charity;* true Christian love.

**Verse 2**
*All knowledge;* all religious knowledge.--*So that I could remove mountains,* referring, perhaps, to our Savior's declaration. [Matthew 17:20](../../../kjv/matthew/17/20).

**Verse 3**
*And have not charity;* honest kindness of feeling. The goods might be bestowed in ostentation and parade.

**Verse 4**
*Suffereth long;* is patient and forbearing.--*Vaunteth* not itself; is not boastful.--*Is not puffed up;* with vanity and self-conceit.

**Verse 5**
*Unseemly;* in a manner deserving of reproach.--*Thinketh no evil,* is not jealous and suspicious.

**Verse 6**
*Rejoiceth not in iniquity;* does not take a malignant pleasure in the faults and sins of others.

**Verse 7**
*Believeth all things;* is trustful; putting always the best construction upon the motives and conduct of others.

**Verse 8**
*Charity never faileth;* it is a steady and permanent principle which shall endure forever.--*It shall vanish away;* that is, its importance and value, and the prominence which its possessor now derives from it, shall disappear. This must necessarily be, as is shown in the [1 Corinthians 13:9](../../../kjv/1-corinthians/13/9),[1 Corinthians 13:10](../../../kjv/1-corinthians/13/10).

**Verse 9**
*In part;* imperfectly.

**Verse 10**
*Shall be done away;* that is, the uncertain and imperfect attainments made in this life will be superseded by clear and certain knowledge.

**Verse 11**
*Childish things;* childish ideas. The knowledge which he prized in childhood, was found of little value when he reached mature years.

**Verse 12**
*Even as also I am known;* thoroughly, perfectly; and of course all present attainments in knowledge on which men now pride themselves so much, will be superseded and become worthless.

**Verse 13**
*And now abideth,* &c.; are permanent. The idea is, that the only spiritual gifts which are of permanent and lasting value, axe those moral graces which adorn the inward character.

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