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1 Corinthians 13

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1If I speak with the tongues of mankind and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. ✦ 2If I have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. ✦ 3And if I give away all my possessions to charity, and if I surrender my body so that I may glory, but do not have love, it does me no good. ✦ 4Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not arrogant. ✦ 5It does not act disgracefully, it does not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, does not keep an account of a wrong suffered, ✦ 6it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; ✦ 7it keeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. ✦ 8Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away with; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away with. ✦ 9For we know in part and prophesy in part; ✦ 10but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away with. ✦ 11When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. ✦ 12For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I also have been fully known. ✦ 13But now faith, hope, and love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love. ✦

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