1 Corinthians 13
If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love
is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is
not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is
not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not
delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects,
always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love
never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where
there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it
will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but
when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a
child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like
a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.
For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see
face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I
am fully known.
And
now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of
these is love.
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