And
now I will show you the most excellent way.
[1]If
I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a
resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
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
have not love, I am nothing.
If
I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have
not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not
proud.
It
is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no
record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It
always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
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.
For
we know in part and we prophesy in part,
but
when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.
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 childish ways
behind me.
Now
we see but a poor 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.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is
love.
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