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1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
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1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
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2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge ; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
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2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
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3 And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
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3 If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
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4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous ; love does not brag and is not arrogant,
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4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
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5 does not act unbecomingly ; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,
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5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
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6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth ;
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6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
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7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
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7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
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8 Love never fails ; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away ; if there are tongues, they will cease ; if there is knowledge, it will be done away.
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8 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.
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9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part ;
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9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
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10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.
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10 but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.
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11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child ; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.
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11 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.
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12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face ; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.
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12 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.
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13 But now faith, hope, love, abide these three ; but the greatest of these is love.
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13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
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