| 1 |
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. |
| 2 |
And if 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 have not love, I am nothing. |
| 3 |
And if I bestow all my goods to feed `the poor', and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing. |
| 4 |
Love suffereth long, `and' is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, |
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doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil; |
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rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth; |
| 7 |
beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. |
| 8 |
Love never faileth: but whether `there be' prophecies, they shall be done away; whether `there be' tongues, they shall cease; whether `there be' knowledge, it shall be done away. |
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For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; |
| 10 |
but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away. |
| 11 |
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things. |
| 12 |
For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known. |
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But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love. |
