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  • Love Is the Greatest

    If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
  • Love

    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.
  • If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing.
  • 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, and have not charity, I am nothing.
  • If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it;a but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.
  • 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.
  • Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud
  • Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
  • or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.
  • Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
  • It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.
  • Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
  • Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
  • Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
  • Prophecy and speaking in unknown languagesb and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever!
  • 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.
  • Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture!
  • For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
  • But when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will become useless.
  • But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
  • When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things.
  • 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.
  • Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.c All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.
  • 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.
  • Three things will last forever — faith, hope, and love — and the greatest of these is love.
  • And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

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