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1 Corinthians 13
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If I have all the eloquence of men or of angels, but speak without love, I am simply a gong booming or a cymbal clashing.
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If I have the gift of prophecy, understanding all the mysteries there are, and knowing everything, and if I have faith in all its fulness, to move mountains, but without love, then I am nothing at all.
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If I give away all that I possess, piece by piece, and if I even let them take my body to burn it, but am without love, it will do me no good whatever.
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Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous; love is never boastful or conceited;
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it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offence, and is not resentful.
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Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins but delights in the truth;
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it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.
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Love does not come to an end. But if there are gifts of prophecy, the time will come when they must fail; or the gift of languages, it will not continue for ever; and knowledge – for this, too, the time will come when it must fail.
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For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophesying is imperfect;
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but once perfection comes, all imperfect things will disappear.
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When I was a child, I used to talk like a child, and think like a child, and argue like a child, but now I am a man, all childish ways are put behind me.
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Now we are seeing a dim reflection in a mirror; but then we shall be seeing face to face. The knowledge that I have now is imperfect; but then I shall know as fully as I am known.
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In short, there are three things that last: faith, hope and love; and the greatest of these is love.
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