 1 If+ I speak with the tongues of men and of angels but do not have true love, I become like sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. 2 And if+ 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, but do not have true love, I am nothing. 3 And if+ I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burned, but do not have true love, nothing is gained+. Matthew 9:13 4 True love patiently suffers long and is kind. True love does not envy. True love does not vaunt itself and is not puffed up. Matthew 5:44 5 It does not behave shamefully+. It does not seek its own way. It is not easily provoked. And it does not think~ evil. Matthew 5:22 6 True love does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth. Matthew 5:8 7 True love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. Matthew 10:22 8 True love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will fail. Where there are tongues, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will vanish away. John 15:9 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when what is perfect~ has come, then what is in part will be done away. 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. 12 For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know even as also I am known. 13 Now abide faith, hope, and true love, these three. But the greatest of these is true love.
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