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I may be able to speak the languages of human beings and even of angels, but if I have no love, my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell. |
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I may have the gift of inspired preaching; I may have all knowledge and understand all secrets; I may have all the faith needed to move mountains---but if I have no love, I am nothing. |
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I may give away everything I have, and even give up my body to be burned ---but if I have no love, this does me no good. |
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Love is patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud; |
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love is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable; love does not keep a record of wrongs; |
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love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth. |
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Love never gives up; and its faith, hope, and patience never fail. |
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Love is eternal. There are inspired messages, but they are temporary; there are gifts of speaking in strange tongues, but they will cease; there is knowledge, but it will pass. |
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For our gifts of knowledge and of inspired messages are only partial; |
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but when what is perfect comes, then what is partial will disappear. |
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When I was a child, my speech, feelings, and thinking were all those of a child; now that I am an adult, I have no more use for childish ways. |
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What we see now is like a dim image in a mirror; then we shall see face-to-face. What I know now is only partial; then it will be complete---as complete as God's knowledge of me. |
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Meanwhile these three remain: faith, hope, and love; and the greatest of these is love. |
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