I may be able to speak the languages of men and even of angels, but if I have no love, my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell.
I may have the gift of inspired preaching,
I may have the gift of knowledge and understand all secrets;
I may have all the faith needed to move mountains
but if I have no love, this does me no good.
Love is patient and kind it is not jealous or conceited or proud.
Love is not ill mannered or selfish or irritable.
Love does not keep a record of wrongs.
Love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth.
Love never gives up and its faith, hope, and patience never fail.
Love is eternal.
There are inspired messages, but they are temporary there are gifts of speaking in strange tongues but they will ceases there is knowledge but it will pass.
For our gifts of knowledge and of inspired messages are only partial but when what is perfect comes, then what is partial will disappear.
When I was a child, my speech, feelings and thinking were all those of a child now that I am a man, I have no more use for childish ways.
What we see now is like a dim image in a mirror then we shall see face to face.
What I know now is only partial then it will be complete as complete as God`s knowledge of me.
Meanwhile these three remain:
Faith, Hope and Love.
The greatest of these is love
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