And now I will show you the most excellent way.
If I speak in the tongues of men and the 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 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 we prophesy 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;
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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Updated April 24, 2001