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| 1 Although with the tongues of men, I be speaking, and of messengers, and have not, love, I have become resounding brass, or a clanging cymbal; |
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| 2 And, though I have [the gift of] prophesying, and know all sacred secrets, and all knowledge,–and though I have all faith, so as to be removing mountains, and have not, love, I am, nothing; |
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| 3 And, though I morsel out all my goods,–and though I deliver up my body, that I may boast, and have not, love, I am profited, nothing. |
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| 4 Love, is patient, is gracious. Love, is not envious, vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, |
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| 5 Acteth not unbecomingly, seeketh not her own things, is not easily provoked, imputeth not that which is base, |
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| 6 Rejoiceth not over unrighteousness, but rejoiceth in sympathy with truth,–
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| 7 All things, covereth, all things, believeth, all things, hopeth, all things, endureth. |
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| 8 Love, at no time, faileth;–but, whether prophesyings, they shall be done away, whether tongues, they shall cease, whether gaining knowledge, it shall be done away; |
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| 9 For, in part, are we gaining knowledge, and, in part, are we prophesying,– |
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| 10 But, as soon as that which is complete is come, that which is in part, shall be done away. |
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| 11 When I was a child, I used to speak as a child, to prefer as child, to reason as a child: now I have become a man, I have laid aside the things of the child! |
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| 12 For we see, as yet, through a dim window, obscurely, but, then, face to face: as yet, I gain knowledge, in part, but, then, shall I fully know, even as I was also fully known. |
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| 13 But, now abide–faith, hope, love,–these three; but, the greatest of these, is, love. |
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