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The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians, Chapter 13
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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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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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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 profiteth me
nothing.
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Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity
vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
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Doth not behave itself
unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no
evil;
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Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
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Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth
all things.
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Charity never faileth: 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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For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
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But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in
part shall be done away.
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When I was a child, I spake 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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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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And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the
greatest of these is charity.
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