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Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not charity,
I am become as sounding brass,
or a tinkling cymbal.
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And though I have the gift of prophecy,
and understand all mysteries,
and all knowledge;
and though I have all faith,
so that I could remove mountains,
and have not charity,
I am nothing.
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And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned,
and have not charity,
it profiteth me nothing.
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Charity suffereth long,
and is kind;
charity envieth not;
charity vaunteth not itself,
is not puffed up,
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Doth not behave itself unseemly,
seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked,
thinketh no evil;
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Rejoiceth not in iniquity,
but rejoiceth in the truth;
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Beareth all things,
believeth all things,
hopeth all things,
endureth all things.
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Charity never faileth:
but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail;
whether there be tongues,
they shall cease;
whether there be knowledge,
it shall vanish away.
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For we know in part,
and we prophesy in part.
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But when that which is perfect is come,
then that which is in part shall be done away.
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When I was a child,
I spake as a child,
I understood as a child,
I thought as a child:
but when I became a man,
I put away childish things.
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For now we see through a glass,
darkly;
but then face to face:
now I know in part;
but then shall I know even as also I am known.
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And now abideth faith,
hope,
charity,
these three;
but the greatest of these is charity.