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1 If I speak in tongues of human beings and of angels but I don't have love, I'm a clanging gong or a clashing cymbal.
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If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 If I have the gift of prophecy and I know all the mysteries and everything else, and if I have such complete faith that I can move mountains but I don't have love, I'm nothing.
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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.
3 If I give away everything that I have and hand over my own body to feel good about what I've done but I don't have love, I receive no benefit whatsoever.
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If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind, it isn't jealous, it doesn't brag, it isn't arrogant,
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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful;
5 it isn't rude, it doesn't seek its own advantage, it isn't irritable, it doesn't keep a record of complaints,
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it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
6 it isn't happy with injustice, but it is happy with the truth.
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it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.
7 Love puts up with all things, trusts in all things, hopes for all things, endures all things.
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Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. As for prophecies, they will be brought to an end. As for tongues, they will stop. As for knowledge, it will be brought to an end.
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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.
9 We know in part and we prophesy in part;
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For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect;
10 but when the perfect comes, what is partial will be brought to an end.
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but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away.
11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, reason like a child, think like a child. But now that I have become a man, I've put an end to childish things.
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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.
12 Now we see a reflection in a mirror; then we will see face-to-face. Now I know partially, but then I will know completely in the same way that I have been completely known.
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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.
13 Now faith, hope, and love remain—these three things—and the greatest of these is love.
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So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.