[1] 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.
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[2] 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.
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[3] 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 profits me nothing.
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[4] Charity suffers long, and is kind; charity envies not; charity brags not itself, is not puffed up,
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[5] Does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil;
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[6] Rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
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[7] Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
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[8] Charity never fails: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
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[9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
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[10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
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[11] When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
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[12] 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.
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[13] And now stays faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
