1 Corinthians 13:1–8 · BSB
13:1
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.
13:2
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
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13:3
If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.
13:4
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
13:5
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
13:6
Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
13:7
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
13:8
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed.
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