The Excellence of Love
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If I speak with the Atongues of men and of Bangels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a Cclanging cymbal. If I have the gift of Aprophecy, and know all Bmysteries and all Cknowledge; and if I have Dall faith, so as to Eremove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I Agive all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I Bsurrender my body 1to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
Love Ais patient, love is kind and Bis not jealous; love does not brag and is not Carrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it Adoes not seek its own, is not provoked, Bdoes not take into account a wrong suffered, Adoes not rejoice in unrighteousness, but Brejoices with the truth; 1Abears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails; but if there are gifts of 1Aprophecy, they will be done away; if there are Btongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. For we Aknow in part and we prophesy in part; 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. 11  When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I 1became a man, I did away with childish things. 12 For now we Asee in a mirror 1dimly, but then Bface to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also Chave been fully known. 13 But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the 1greatest of these is Alove.
A 13:1 1 Cor 12:10 B 13:1 2 Cor 12:4; Rev 14:2 C 13:1 Ps 150:5 A 13:2 Matt 7:22; Acts 13:1; 1 Cor 11:4; 13:8; 14:1, 39 B 13:2 1 Cor 14:2; 15:51 C 13:2 Rom 15:14 D 13:2 1 Cor 12:9 E 13:2 Matt 17:20; 21:21; Mark 11:23 A 13:3 Matt 6:2 B 13:3 Dan 3:28 1 13:3 Early mss read that I may boast A 13:4 Prov 10:12; 17:9; 1 Thess 5:14; 1 Pet 4:8 B 13:4 Acts 7:9 C 13:4 1 Cor 4:6 A 13:5 1 Cor 10:24; Phil 2:21 B 13:5 2 Cor 5:19 A 13:6 2 Thess 2:12 B 13:6 2 John 4; 3 John 3f 1 13:7 Or covers A 13:7 1 Cor 9:12 1 13:8 Lit prophecies A 13:8 1 Cor 13:2 B 13:8 1 Cor 13:1 A 13:9 1 Cor 8:2; 13:12 1 13:11 Lit have become...have done away with A 13:12 2 Cor 5:7; Phil 3:12; James 1:23 1 13:12 Lit in a riddle B 13:12 Gen 32:30; Num 12:8; 1 John 3:2 C 13:12 1 Cor 8:3 1 13:13 Lit greater A 13:13 Gal 5:6