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¹Suppose that I speak with the tongues of men and of angels. But if I do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

²Suppose that I have the gift of prophecy and understand all hidden truths and knowledge, and that I have all faith so as to remove mountains. But if I do not have love, I am nothing.

³Suppose that I give all I own to feed the poor, and that I give my body to be burned. But if I do not have love, I gain nothing.

⁴Love is patient and kind. Love does not envy or boast. It is not arrogant

⁵or rude. It is not self-serving. It is not easily angered, nor does it keep a count of wrongs.

⁶It does not rejoice in unrighteousness. Instead, it rejoices in the truth.

⁷Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

⁸Love never ends. If there are prophecies, they will pass away. If there are tongues, they will cease. If there is knowledge, it will pass away.

⁹For we know in part and we prophesy in part.

¹⁰But when the perfect comes, that which is incomplete will pass away.

¹¹When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became an adult, I put away childish things.

¹²For now we see indirectly in a mirror, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I have been fully known.

¹³But now these three remain: faith, future confidence, and love. But the greatest of these is love.