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13:1 If I speak with tongues of men and of angels, and I have not charity, I am made as brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling. 13:2 And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries, and all knowing [and all knowing, or science ], and if I have all faith, so that I move hills from their place [so that I bear over hills from one place to another ], and I have not charity, I am nought. 13:3 And if I part all my goods into the meats of poor men, and if I betake my body, so that I burn, and if I have not charity, it profiteth to me nothing. 13:4 Charity is patient, it is benign; charity envieth not, it doeth not wickedly, it is not blown [it is not in-blown with pride ], 13:5 it is not covetous [ of worships ], it seeketh not those things that be his own [it seeketh not those things that be her own], it is not stirred to wrath, it thinketh not evil, 13:6 it joyeth not on wickedness, but it joyeth together to truth; [it joyeth not in wickedness, forsooth it joyeth together with truth;] 13:7 it suffereth all things, it believeth all things, it hopeth all things, it sustaineth all things. 13:8 Charity falleth never down, whether prophecies shall be voided, either languages shall cease, either science shall be destroyed [whether prophecies shall be voided, or languages shall cease, or science shall be destroyed]. 13:9 For a part we know, and a part we prophesy; [For of part we know, and of part we prophesy;] 13:10 but when that shall come that is perfect, that thing that is of part shall be voided. 13:11 When I was a little child, I spake as a little child, I understood as a little child, I thought as a little child; but when I was made a man, I voided those things that were of a little child. 13:12 And we see now [Forsooth we see now] by a mirror in darkness, but then face to face; now I know of part, but then I shall know, as [and] I am known. 13:13 And now dwelleth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the most of these is charity.