1 Corinthians 13
1 If I speak in the languages of humans and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a sounding bronze or a clanging cymbal.
2 And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, enough to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
3 And if I give away all my possessions to feed others, and if I hand over my body to be burned, but do not have love, I gain nothing from it.
4 Love is patient; love is kind. It does not envy; love does not boast or become proud.
5 It does not behave indecently, does not seek its own interests, is not provoked, and does not keep account of evil.
6 It does not rejoice in injustice, but rejoices with the truth.
7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will be done away with; whether languages, they will cease; whether knowledge, it will be done away with.
9 For we know in part and prophesy in part.
10 But when what is perfect comes, what is partial will be done away with.
11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I left behind the things of a child.
12 For now we see by means of a mirror, in a riddle; but then, face to face. Now I know in part; but then I will know fully, just as I have also been fully known.
13 Now, however, these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of them is love.
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