If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels
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#47 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels,
but have not love,
I am only a resounding gong or a clanging symbol.
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.
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.
It always protects,
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 prophecy in part,
but when 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 became 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 I know in part,
then I shall know fully,
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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