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1 Corinthians 13

The Excellence of Love

1

If I speak with the  atongues of men and of  bangels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a  cclanging cymbal.

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If I have the gift of  aprophecy, and know all  bmysteries and all  cknowledge; and if I have  dall faith, so as to  eremove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

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And if I  agive all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I  bsurrender my body  1to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.

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Love  ais patient, love is kind and  bis not jealous; love does not brag and is not  carrogant,

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does not act unbecomingly; it  adoes not seek its own, is not provoked,  bdoes not take into account a wrong suffered,

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 adoes not rejoice in unrighteousness, but  brejoices with the truth;

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 1 abears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

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Love never fails; but if there are gifts of  1 aprophecy, they will be done away; if there are  btongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away.

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For we  aknow in part and we prophesy in part;

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but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.

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When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I  1became a man, I did away with childish things.

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For now we  asee in a mirror  1dimly, but then  bface to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also  chave been fully known.

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But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the  1greatest of these is  alove.



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