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The Excellence of Love

¹ If I speak with the ^(C1)tongues of mankind and of ^(C2)angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a ^(C3)clanging cymbal.² If I have the gift of ^(C1)prophecy and know all ^(C2)mysteries and all ^(C3)knowledge, and if I have ^(C4)all faith so as to ^(C5)remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.³ And if I ^(C1)give away all my possessions to charity, and if I ^(C2)surrender my body so that I may ^(F1)glory, but do not have love, it does me no good.

⁴ Love ^(C1)is patient, love is kind, it ^(C2)is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not ^(C3)arrogant.⁵ It does not act disgracefully, it ^(C1)does not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, ^(C2)does not keep an account of a wrong suffered,^6 (C1)it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but ^(C2)rejoices with the truth;⁷ it ^(F1)(C1)keeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

⁸ Love never fails; but if there are gifts of ^(F1)(C1)prophecy, they will be done away with; if there are ^(C2)tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away with.⁹ For we ^(C1)know in part and prophesy in part;¹⁰ but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away with.¹¹ When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I ^(F1)became a man, I did away with childish things.¹² For now we ^(C1)see in a mirror ^(F1)dimly, but then ^(C2)face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I also ^(C3)have been fully known.¹³ But now faith, hope, and love remain, these three; but the ^(F1)greatest of these is ^(C1)love.