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If I speak with the tongues of mankind and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling 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 though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

And if I give away all my possessions to charity, and if I surrender my body so that I may glory, but do not have love, it does me no good.

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not arrogant.

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

It does not act disgracefully, it does not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, does not keep an account of a wrong suffered,

Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

it keeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away with; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

For we know in part and prophesy in part;

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away with.

But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall 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.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away 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.

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

But now faith, hope, and love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.