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If I speak with the tongues of Adam and of messengers but do not have love, I have become sounding bronze or a clashing cymbal.
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And if I have prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all trust so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
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And if I distribute all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
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Love is patient. Love is kind. Love does not envy. Love does not boast. It is not puffed up.
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It does not behave shamefully. It does not seek its own. It is not easily provoked. It does not keep a ledger of wrong.
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It does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices together with truth.
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It bears all things, trusts all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
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Love never fails. But whether prophecies, they shall pass away. Whether tongues, they shall cease. Whether knowledge, it shall pass away.
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For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
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But when the complete comes, the partial shall pass away.
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When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child. When I became an ish, I put away the things of the child.
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For now we see through a mirror, in obscurity, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know fully, just as I also have been fully known.
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But now remain trust, hope, love— these three. And the greatest of these is love.