The Excellence of Love
1If 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.
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 do not have love, I am nothing.
3And if I give away all my possessions to charity, and if I surrender my body so that I may
4Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not arrogant.
5It does not act disgracefully, it does not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, does not keep an account of a wrong suffered,
6it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
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8Love never fails; but if there are gifts of
9For we know in part and prophesy in part;
10but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away with.
11When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I
12For now we see in a mirror
13But now faith, hope, and love remain, these three; but the