The Way of Love
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If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
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And if I have 1prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, 2so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
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3If I give away all I have, and 4if I deliver up my body to be burned,a but have not love, I gain nothing.
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Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
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For 15we know in part and we prophesy in part,
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but 16when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
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When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
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For 17now we see in a mirror dimly, but 18then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as 19I have been fully known.
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So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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(English Standard Version - The Holy Bible Online)