Love – the best gift of all
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📚Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love✭, I have become sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2 📚✭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 love, I am nothing. 3 📚✭And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing. 4 📚✭Love is patient✭ and is kind✭. Love does not envy✭. Love does not promote itself✭, is not puffed up✭, 5 📚does not behave rudely✭, is not self-seeking✭, is not easily provoked, does not impute evil✭, 6 📚✭does not rejoice in wickedness, but rejoices in the truth, 7 📚bears✭ all things, believes✭ all things, hopes✭ all things, endures✭ all things.
8 📚✭Love never fails. But if there are prophecies, they will fail; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will vanish away✭. 9 📚For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 10 📚But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be ended. 11 📚✭When I was a child I spoke like a child, I understood like a child, I thought like a child. But when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 📚For now we see through a glass, darkly✭, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know even as also I am known.
13 📚✭And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.