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If I speak with the ^(a)tongues of men and of ^(b)angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a ^(c)clanging cymbal.

If I have the gift of ^(d)prophecy, and know all ^(e)mysteries and all ^(f)knowledge; and if I have ^(g)all faith, so as to ^(h)remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

And if I ⁽ⁱ⁾give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I ^(j)surrender my body ^[a]to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.

Love ^(k)is patient, love is kind and ^(l)is not jealous; love does not brag and is not ^(m)arrogant,

does not act unbecomingly; it ⁽ⁿ⁾does not seek its own, is not provoked, ^(o)does not take into account a wrong suffered,

^(p)does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but ^(q)rejoices with the truth;

^[b](r)bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails; but if there are gifts of ^[c](s)prophecy, they will be done away; if there are ^(t)tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away.

For we ^(u)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 ^[d]became a man, I did away with childish things.

For now we ^(v)see in a mirror ^[e]dimly, but then ^(w)face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also ^(x)have been fully known.

But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the ^[f]greatest of these is ^(y)love.