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13 : 1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
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13 : 2 And if I haveprophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith,so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
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13 : 3 If I give away all I have, andif I deliver up my body to be burned,but have not love, I gain nothing.
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13 : 4 Love is patient andkind; lovedoes not envy or boast; itis not arrogant
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13 : 5 or rude. Itdoes not insist on its own way; itis not irritable or resentful;
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13 : 6 itdoes not rejoice at wrongdoing, butrejoices with the truth.
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13 : 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,endures all things.
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13 : 8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
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13 : 9 Forwe know in part and we prophesy in part,
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13 : 10 butwhen the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
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13 : 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
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13 : 12 Fornow we see in a mirror dimly, butthen face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even asI have been fully known.
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13 : 13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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