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1 Corinthians 13 NIV
1
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I
am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
2
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 have
not love, I am nothing.
3
If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the
flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not
boast, it is not proud.
5
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it
keeps no record of wrongs.
6
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
7
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 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.
9
For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10
but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.
11
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 childish ways
behind me.
12
Now we see but a poor 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.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the
greatest of these is love.
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