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1 Corinthians 13

¹If I speak in languages both human and angelic, but do not have love, I have become like a clanging gong or a clashing cymbal. ²And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know every mystery and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so that I can remove mountains, but have no love, I am nothing. ³And if I give up all my possessions and hand over my body so I can boast, but have no love, it doesn't profit me anything.

⁴Love is patient, love is kind. It's not jealous or boastful. It's not self-important. ⁵It doesn't behave indecently, nor does it seek its own way. It doesn't get provoked. It doesn't plan evil. ⁶It doesn't rejoice in injustice, but it rejoices with the genuine. ⁷It endures all things, believes all things, hopes all things, is patient through everything.

⁸Love never fails. But prophecies will fail, tongues will cease, knowledge will vanish. ⁹Because we know partially and we prophesy partially. ¹⁰But when what is complete comes, what is partial will vanish. ¹¹When I was a child I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. When I became a man, I put aside childish things. ¹²For now we see dimly in a mirror, but then face to face. Now I know partially, but then I will know in the same way that God knows me. ¹³And now these three remain: Faith, Hope and Love. But the greatest of these is love.

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