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Love: The Superior Way

¹ If I speak human or angelic tongues^(F1) but do not have love,^(C1) I am a noisy gong^(C2) or a clanging cymbal. ² If I have the gift of prophecy^(C1) and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can move mountains^(C2) but do not have love, I am nothing. ³ And if I give away all my possessions, and if I give over my body in order to boast^(F1) but do not have love, I gain nothing.

⁴ Love is patient,^(C1) love is kind. Love does not envy,^(C2) is not boastful, is not arrogant,^{(C3) 5} is not rude, is not self-seeking,^(C1) is not irritable,^(C2) and does not keep a record of wrongs. ⁶ Love finds no joy in unrighteousness but rejoices in the truth.^{(C1) 7} It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures^(C1) all things.

⁸ Love never ends.^(C1) But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. ⁹ For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰ but when the perfect comes, the partial will come to an end. ¹¹ 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 put aside childish things. ¹² For now we see only a reflection^(F1) as in a mirror, but then face to face.^(C1) Now I know in part, but then I will know fully,^(C2) as I am fully known.^{(C3) 13} Now these three remain: faith, hope,^(C1) and love—but the greatest of these is love.