English IV: "The Definition of Love"

This list covers vocabulary from Corinthians, Book 1, Chapter 13 (The Way of Love), English Standard Version of the New Testament.
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  1. tongue
    a human written or spoken language used by a community
    If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
  2. gong
    a large metal disk that sounds a note when struck
    If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
  3. cymbal
    a percussion instrument consisting of a concave brass disk
    If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
  4. prophetic
    foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention
    And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
  5. deliver
    surrender someone or something to another
    If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
  6. patient
    enduring trying circumstances with even temper
    Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude.
  7. envy
    a desire to have something that is possessed by another
    Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude.
  8. arrogant
    having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance
    Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude.
  9. irritable
    easily annoyed
    It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
  10. resentful
    full of or marked by indignant ill will
    It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
  11. endure
    face and withstand with courage
    Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
  12. prophecy
    a prediction uttered under divine inspiration
    As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
  13. cease
    have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense
    As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
  14. prophesy
    predict or reveal, as if through divine inspiration
    For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
  15. dimly
    with a faint light
    For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face.
Created on Thu Jul 23 17:25:21 EDT 2026 (updated Mon Aug 24 12:25:49 EDT 2026)

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