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If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
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If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. SCode Mt 17:20 Mt 7:22 Mk 11:23 Lk 17:6 Act 2:18 1Cor 14:1 1Cor 14:39
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If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. SCode Dan 3:28 Mt 6:2
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Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. SCode Pro 17:9 Pro 10:12 Act 7:9 1Cor 4:6 2Cor 6:6 Gal 5:22 Eph 4:32 Col 3:12 1Th 5:14 2Tim 2:10 1Pet 4:8
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It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. SCode Rom 4:6 1Cor 10:24 2Cor 5:19
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Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. SCode Rom 1:32 2Th 2:12 2Jn 1:4 3Jn 1:3~4
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It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. SCode 1Cor 13:4 1Cor 9:12
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Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
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For we know in part and we prophesy in part, SCode 1Cor 8:2~3
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but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. SCode Jn 15:15
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When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.
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For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. SCode Num 12:8 Job 36:26 Mt 5:8 2Cor 5:7 2Cor 3:18 Jas 1:23 1Jn 3:2
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And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
NIV Footnotes
  1. 13:1 Or languages
  2. 13:3 Some manuscripts body to the flames
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