The Way of Love

¹If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. ²And if I have aprophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, bso as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³cIf I give away all I have, and dif I deliver up my body to be burned,1 but have not love, I gain nothing.

⁴eLove is patient and fkind; love gdoes not envy or boast; it his not arrogant ⁵or rude. It idoes not insist on its own way; it jis not irritable or resentful;2 ⁶it kdoes not rejoice at wrongdoing, but lrejoices with the truth. ⁷mLove bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, eendures all things.

⁸Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹For nwe know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰but owhen the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. ¹¹When 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 gave up childish ways. ¹²For pnow we see in a mirror dimly, but qthen face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as rI have been fully known.

¹³So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

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