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If I speak with the tongues of men and of messengers, and do not have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal;
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and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, and do not have love, I am nothing;
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and if I give away all my goods to feed others, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and do not have love, I am profited nothing.
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Love is long-suffering, it is kind, love does not envy, love does not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,
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does not act unseemly, does not seek its own things, is not provoked, does not impute evil,
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[does] not rejoice over unrighteousness, and rejoices with the truth;
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it bears all things, it believes all, it hopes all, it endures all.
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Love never fails; and whether [there be] prophecies, they will become useless; whether tongues, they will cease; whether knowledge, it will become useless;
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for we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
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and when that which is perfect may come, then that which [is] in part will become useless.
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When I was a child, I was speaking as a child, I was thinking as a child, I was reasoning as a child, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the child;
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for we now see obscurely through a mirror, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I will fully know, as I was also known;
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and now there remains faith, hope, love—these three; and the greatest of these [is] love.
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