LOVE And now I will show you the most excellent way
If I speak in the tongues of men and of 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 a 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. Love is patient, love is kind . It does not envy , it does not bast , 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 rejoces with the truth . It always protects , alway strusts , always hopes ,always perseberes. Love never fails . But where there are prophecies , they will cease; Where there are tongues , they will be stilled ; Where there is knowlege , it will pass away . For we konw in part and we prophesy in part , but whe perfection comes , 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 become a man ,I put childish ways behind me . Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face . Now Iknow in part; then Ishall know gully,even as I am fully known . And now these three remain; faith,hope and love . But the greatest of these is love.
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