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1 ) Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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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 love, I am nothing.
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3 ) And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing.
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4 ) Love suffers long, and is kind, love envies not, love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,
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5 ) Does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil,
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6 ) Rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth,
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7 ) Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
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8 ) Love never fails: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail, whether there be tongues, they shall cease, whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
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9 ) For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
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10 ) But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
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11 ) When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
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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.
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13 ) And now abides faith, hope, love, these three, but the greatest of these is love.