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If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.      
      
            
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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.      
      
            
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If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.      
      
            
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Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.      
      
            
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It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.      
      
            
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Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.      
      
            
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It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.      
      
            
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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.      
      
            
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For we know in part and we prophesy in part,      
      
            
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but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.      
      
            
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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.      
      
            
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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.      
      
            
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And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.