If I SPEAK in the TONGUES of MEN and ANGELS, but have not LOVE, I am only a RESOUNDING GONG or a CLANGING CYMBAL. If I have the GIFT of PROPHECY and can FATHOM ALL MYSTERIES and ALL KNOWLEDGE, and if I have FAITH that can MOVE MOUNTAINS, but have not LOVE, I am NOTHING. If I give ALL I POSSESS to the POOR and SURRENDER my BODY to the FLAMES but have not LOVE, I GAIN NOTHING.
("GOD'S WORD TO ME, IS GOD'S LOVE FOR ME, GOD's LOVE IS, THE MOST EXCELLENT WAY")
LOVE IS PATIENT, LOVE IS KIND. It does not ENVY, it does not BOAST, it is not PROUD. It is NOT RUDE, it is not SELF-SEEKING, it is not EASILY ANGERED, it KEEPS NO RECORD of WRONGS. LOVE does not DELIGHT IN EVIL but REJOICES WITH THE TRUTH. LOVE ALWAYS PROTECT, ALWAYS TRUSTS, ALWAYS HOPES, ALWAYS PERSEVERES.
LOVE NEVER FAILS. But where there are PROPHECIES, they will CEASE; where there are TONGUES, they will be STILLED; where there is KNOWLEDGE, it will PASS AWAY. For WE KNOW in part and WE PROPHESY in part, but when PERFECTION COMES (JESUS CHRIST), the IMPERFECT DISAPPEARS. When I was a CHILD, I TALKED like a child, I THOUGHT like a child, I REASONED like a child. When I BECAME A MAN (MATURE IN CHRIST), I put childish ways BEHIND ME. Now WE SEE but a POOR REFLECTION as in a MIRROR; then WE SHALL SEE GOD FACE TO FACE. NOW, I KNOW in part; THEN I SHALL KNOW GOD'S WORD FULLY, even as I AM FULLY KNOWN. (GOD FULLY KNOWS US)
And now these THREE REMAIN: FAITH, HOPE and LOVE. But the GREATEST of these is LOVE.
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