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1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 And if I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but I do not have love, I am nothing.
3 And if I give away all my possessions, and if I give my body so that I might boast, but I do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient and is kind; love does not envy; love does not boast, it is not arrogant.
5 It is not rude, it does not seek its own, it is not easily angered, it does not keep a count of wrongs.
6 It does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices in the truth.
7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends. But if there are prophecies, they will pass away: if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will pass away.
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part.
10 But when the perfect comes, that which is partial will pass away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became an adult, I put away childish things.
12 For now we see unclearly in a mirror, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I have also been fully known.
13 But now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.
The First Letter of Paul to the Corinthians