"If I speak with the tongues of mortals and angels, but do not have LOVE, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbol. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to move mountains, but do not have LOVE, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have LOVE, I gain nothing.
LOVE is patient. LOVE is kind. LOVE is not envious nor boastful nor arrogant nor rude. It does not insist upon its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
LOVE never ends. 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. For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the complete comes, the partial will all come to an end.
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now, we see in a mirror dimly, but soon we will see HIM face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know more fully, even as I have been fully known. And for now, faith, hope, and LOVE abide, these three; and the greatest of these is LOVE"
1 Corinthians 13; 1-13
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