Biblefag here. Just a few observations about Q's scripture quotes yesterday (#97 on /patriotsfight/).

First, he's quoting from the 1984 edition of the New International Version (NIV 1984). The NIV is the most popular translation with evangelicals. It was massively updated in 2011 and that newer update was unpopular with many evangelicals. There are lots of reasons the newer NIV is unpopular with so many. But a big one is that it tends to use more politically correct and more gender neutral pronouns.

So using the NIV 1984 makes a statement.

Regarding the quote from 1 Corinthians, Q citation is "1 Cor 13:4-13". However he only quoted from verse 4 through the first part of verse 8. That is a very standard quote used to give the biblical definition of love. Yet Q's citation goes beyond the definition of love through to the end of the chapter.

Since verse 13 is the end of the chapter, and since Q doesn't make typos without acknowledging them as mistakes, there is probably some meaning in the difference between the citation and what he quoted.

Here is the full passage Q cited from the NIV 1984:

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

"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. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."

— 1 Corinthians 13:4-13 (NIV 1984)

Dig away at the significance of the rest of that passage!