1 Corinthians 13
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Though I speak with the tongues of men
and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding
brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and
though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, Mt.
17.20 ; 21.21 · Mk. 11.23 and have not charity, I am nothing.
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And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have
not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
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Charity suffereth long, and is
kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not
puffed up,
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doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh
not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
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rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth
in the truth;
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beareth all things, believeth all things,
hopeth all things, endureth all things.
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Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it
shall vanish away.
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For we know in part, and we prophesy in
part.
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But when that which is perfect is come,
then that which is in part shall be done away.
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When I was a child, I spake as a child, I
understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a
man, I put away childish things.
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For now we see through a glass, darkly,
but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know
even as also I am known.
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And now abideth faith, hope, charity,
these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
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