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1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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I may speak in the tongues of men, even angels; but if I lack love, I have become merely blaring brass or a cymbal clanging.
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
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I may have the gift of prophecy, I may fathom all mysteries, know all things, have all faith - enough to move mountains; but if I lack love, I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
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I may give away everything that I own, I may even hand over my body to be burned; but if I lack love, I gain nothing.
4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
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Love is patient and kind, not jealous, not boastful,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
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not proud, rude or selfish, not easily angered, and it keeps no record of wrongs.
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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Love does not gloat over other people's sins but takes its delight in the truth.
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
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Love always bears up, always trusts, always hopes, always endures.
8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
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Love never ends; but prophecies will pass, tongues will cease, knowledge will pass.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
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For our knowledge is partial, and our prophecy partial;
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
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but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass.
11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
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When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, argued like a child; now that I have become a man, I have finished with childish ways.
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
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For now we see obscurely in a mirror, but then it will be face to face. Now I know partly; then I will know fully, just as God has fully known me.
13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
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But for now, three things last trust, hope, love; and the greatest of these is love.
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Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.