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| 13:1 |
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
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| 13:2 |
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 do not have love, I am nothing.
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| 13:3 |
And if I give all my possessions to feed [the poor], and if I deliver my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
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| 13:4 |
Love is patient, love is kind, [and] is not jealous; love does not brag [and] is not arrogant,
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| 13:5 |
does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong [suffered],
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| 13:6 |
does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
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| 13:7 |
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
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| 13:8 |
Love never fails; but if [there are gifts of] prophecy, they will be done away; if [there are] tongues, they will cease; if [there is] knowledge, it will be done away.
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| 13:9 |
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
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| 13:10 |
but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.
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| 13:11 |
When I was a child, I used to speak as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.
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| 13:12 |
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall know fully just as I also have been fully known.
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| 13:13 |
But now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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