1 Corinthians 13:1-13 NAS
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I
have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 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 do not have love, I am
nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor,
and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits
me nothing.
Love is patient, love
is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not
arrogant does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not
provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not
rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things,
believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails; but if
there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are
tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done
away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part; but when the
perfect comes, the partial will be done away. When 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. For 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. But now faith, hope,
love abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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