1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels,
but have no love,
I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2And 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 no love,
I AM nothing.
3If I give away all I have,
and if I deliver my body to be burned,
but have no love,
I GAIN nothing.
4Love is patient and kind;
love is not jealous or boastful;
5it is not arrogant or rude.
Love does not insist on its own way;
it is not irritable or resentful;
6it does not rejoice at wrong,
but rejoices in the right.
7Love bears all things,
believes all things,
hopes all things,
endures all things.
8Love never ends;
as for prophecies, they will pass away;
as for tongues, they will cease;
as for knowledge, it will pass away.
9For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect;
10but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away.
11When I was a child,
I spoke like a child,
I thought like a child,
I reasoned like a child;
when I became a man,
I gave up childish ways.
12For now we see in a mirror dimly,
but then face to face.
Now I know in part;
then I shall understand fully,
even as I have been fully understood.
13So faith, hope, love abide,
these three;
but the greatest of these is LOVE.
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