Love 1If I should speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become a sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2And if I should have prophecy and should understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3And if I should give away all my possessions, and if I should deliver up my body that I may boast,† but have not love, I am profited nothing. 4Love is patient, it is kind; love does not envy, love does not boast, it is not puffed up. 5It does not act unbecomingly, it does not seek its own things, it is not provoked, it keeps no reckoning of evil. 6It does not rejoice at unrighteousness, but it rejoices with the truth. 7It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8Love never fails; but if there are prophecies, they will be made null; and if there are tongues, they will cease; and if there is knowledge, it will be made null. 9For† we know in part and we prophesy in part; 10but when the perfect should come, the partial will be made null. 11When I was a child, I was speaking like a child, I was thinking like a child, I was reasoning like a child; when I became a man, I have made null the things of the child. 12For now we see through a glass in obscurity, but then, face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13But now these three things remain: faith, hope, love; but the greatest of these is love.
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