The Way of Love
1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
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And if I have
1prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith,
2so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
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3If I give away all I have, and
4if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
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5Love is patient and
6kind; love
7does not envy or boast; it
8is not arrogant
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or rude. It
9does not insist on its own way; it
10is not irritable or resentful;
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it
11does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but
12rejoices with the truth.
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13Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,
14endures all things.
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Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
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For
15we know in part and we prophesy in part,
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but
16when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
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When 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.
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For
17now we see in a mirror dimly, but
18then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as
19I have been fully known.
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So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.