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I will show you a more excellent way.
1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away my goods to feed the poor, and surrender my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. Love does not envy, it is not boastful, it is not proud, 5 It does not behave rudely, it is not selfish, it is not easily angered, it does not keep a record of wrongs. 6 Love finds no joy in unrighteousness, but rejoices in the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will come to an end. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12 For now we see but dimly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.