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1 Corinthians 13

1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.
1If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
2If 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 don’t have love, I am nothing.
3If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.
3If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
4Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
5doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
6Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
6doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
7It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed.
8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.
9For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
9For we know in part and we prophesy in part;
10but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.
10but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.
11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.
11When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.
12Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
12For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.
13And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
13But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.