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13:1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 13:2 And if I have [the gift of] prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 13:3 And if I give all my possessions to feed [the poor], and if I deliver my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing. 13:4 Love is patient, love is kind, [and] is not jealous; love does not brag [and] is not arrogant, 13:5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong [suffered], 13:6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 13:7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 13:8 Love never fails; but if [there are gifts of] prophecy, they will be done away; if [there are] tongues, they will cease; if [there is] knowledge, it will be done away. 13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; 13:10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. 13:11 When I was a child, I used to speak as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. 13:12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall know fully just as I also have been fully known. 13:13 But now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.