## The Excellence of Love 

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If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 

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And if I have _the gift of_ prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 

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And if I give all my possessions to feed _the poor_, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing. 

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Love is patient, love is kind, is not jealous, does not brag, is not puffed up; 

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it does not act unbecomingly, does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong _suffered_; 

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it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 

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it bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 

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Love never fails, but if _there are gifts of_ prophecy, they will be done away; if _there are_ tongues, they will cease; if _there is_ knowledge, it will be done away. 

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For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 

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but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. 

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When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child. When I became a man, I did away with childish things. 

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For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. 

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But now abide faith, hope, love--these three; but the greatest of these is love.