1 Corinthians 13

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1 If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal.	1 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.
2 And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.	2 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.
3 If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.	3 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.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated,	4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5 it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,	5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6 it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.	6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.	7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8 Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing.	8 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.
9 For we know partially and we prophesy partially,	9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.	10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11 When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things.	11 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.
12 At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known.	12 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.
13 So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.	13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.