1Cor 13
1
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding
brass, or a clanging cymbal.
2
And 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 have not love, I am nothing.
3
And if I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and if I give my body to be burned,
but have not love, it profits me nothing.
4
Love suffers long, [and] is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not
puffed up,
5
does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not its own, is not provoked, takes not account
of evil;
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rejoices not in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
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bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8
Love never fails: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall be done away; whether
[there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall be done
away.
9
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
10
but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.
11
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now
that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.
12
For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but
then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known.
13
But now abides faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.