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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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If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 And 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 not love, I am nothing.
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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 do not have love, I am nothing.
3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
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If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful;
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Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
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It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
6 it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.
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Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
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It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 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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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.
9 For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect;
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For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10 but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away.
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but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.
11 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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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 the ways of childhood behind me.
12 For 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.
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For now we see only a 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.
13 So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
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