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  • If I speak in the tonguesa of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
  • Love Is the Greatest

    If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
  • If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
  • If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing.
  • If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,b but do not have love, I gain nothing.
  • If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it;a but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.
  • Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
  • Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud
  • It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
  • or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.
  • Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
  • It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.
  • It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
  • Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
  • Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
  • Prophecy and speaking in unknown languagesb and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever!
  • For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
  • Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture!
  • but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.
  • But when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will become useless.
  • When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.
  • When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things.
  • For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
  • Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.c All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.
  • And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
  • Three things will last forever — faith, hope, and love — and the greatest of these is love.

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