1 Corinthians 13:1-13
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If I speak in tongues of human beings and of angels but I don’t have love, I’m a clanging gong or a clashing cymbal. 2
If I have the gift of prophecy and I know all the mysteries and everything else, and if I have such complete faith that I can move mountains but I don’t have love, I’m nothing. 3
If I give away everything that I have and hand over my own body to feel good about what I’ve done but I don’t have love, I receive no benefit whatsoever. 4
Love is patient, love is kind, it isn’t jealous, it doesn’t brag, it isn’t arrogant, 5
it isn’t rude, it doesn’t seek its own advantage, it isn’t irritable, it doesn’t keep a record of complaints, 6
it isn’t happy with injustice, but it is happy with the truth. 7
Love puts up with all things, trusts in all things, hopes for all things, endures all things. 8
Love never fails. As for prophecies, they will be brought to an end. As for tongues, they will stop. As for knowledge, it will be brought to an end. 9
We know in part and we prophesy in part; 10
but when the perfect comes, what is partial will be brought to an end. 11
When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, reason like a child, think like a child. But now that I have become a man, I’ve put an end to childish things. 12
Now we see a reflection in a mirror; then we will see face-to-face. Now I know partially, but then I will know completely in the same way that I have been completely known. 13
Now faith, hope, and love remain—these three things—and the greatest of these is love.