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If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;
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and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;
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and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.
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The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,
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doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,
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rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth;