1 Corinthians 13

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1 Though I command languages both human and angelic -- if I speak without love, I am no more than agong booming or a cymbal clashing.	1 If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal.
2 And though I have the power of prophecy, to penetrate al mysteries and knowledge, and though Ihave all the faith necessary to move mountains -- if I am without love, I am nothing.	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.
3 Though I should give away to the poor al that I possess, and even give up my body to be burned -- if Iam without love, it wil do me no good whatever.	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.
4 Love is always patient and kind; love is never jealous; love is not boastful or conceited,	4 Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated,
5 it is never rude and never seeks its own advantage, it does not take offence or store up grievances.	5 it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,
6 Love does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but finds its joy in the truth.	6 it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.
7 It is always ready to make al owances, to trust, to hope and to endure whatever comes.	7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never comes to an end. But if there are prophecies, they will be done away with; if tongues, theywil fall silent; and if knowledge, it wil be done away with.	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.
9 For we know only imperfectly, and we prophesy imperfectly;	9 For we know partially and we prophesy partially,
10 but once perfection comes, al imperfect things wil be done away with.	10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
11 When I was a child, I used to talk like a child, and see things as a child does, and think like a child;but now that I have become an adult, I have finished with al childish ways.	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.
12 Now we see only reflections in a mirror, mere riddles, but then we shal be seeing face to face. Now Ican know only imperfectly; but then I shal know just as fully as I am myself known.	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.
13 As it is, these remain: faith, hope and love, the three of them; and the greatest of them is love.	13 So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.