A Reminding
If I speak with the tongues of mankind
and of angels, but do not have love,
I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
If I have the gift of prophecy and know all
mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all
faith so as to remove mountains, but do not have love,
I am nothing.
And if I give away all my possessions to charity, and
if I surrender my body so that I may glory,
but do not have love, it does me no good.
Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous;
love does not brag, it is not arrogant.
It does not act disgracefully,
it does not seek its own benefit;
it is not provoked,
does not keep an account of a wrong suffered,
it does not rejoice in unrighteousness,
but rejoices with the truth; it keeps every confidence,
it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails;
but if there are gifts of prophecy,
they will be done away with;
if there are tongues,
they will cease;
if there is knowledge,
it will be done away with.
For we know in part and prophesy in part;
but when the perfect comes, the partial
will be done away with.
1 Corinthians 13:1-11 (NASB2020)
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