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.