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(1 Corinthians 13:1-13 GNB) (1) I may be able to speak the languages of human beings and even of angels, but if I have no love, my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell. (2) I may have the gift of inspired preaching; I may have all knowledge and understand all secrets; I may have all the faith needed to move mountains---but if I have no love, I am nothing. (3) I may give away everything I have, and even give up my body to be burned ---but if I have no love, this does me no good. (4) Love is patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud; (5) love is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable; love does not keep a record of wrongs; (6) love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth. (7) Love never gives up; and its faith, hope, and patience never fail. (8) Love is eternal. There are inspired messages, but they are temporary; there are gifts of speaking in strange tongues, but they will cease; there is knowledge, but it will pass. (9) For our gifts of knowledge and of inspired messages are only partial; (10) but when what is perfect comes, then what is partial will disappear. (11) When I was a child, my speech, feelings, and thinking were all those of a child; now that I am an adult, I have no more use for childish ways. (12) What we see now is like a dim image in a mirror; then we shall see face-to-face. What I know now is only partial; then it will be complete---as complete as God's knowledge of me. (13) Meanwhile these three remain: faith, hope, and love; and the greatest of these is love.
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