⁴The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, ⁵doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil, ⁶rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth; ⁷all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth.

⁸The love doth never fail; and whether there be prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless; ⁹for in part we know, and in part we prophecy; ¹⁰and when that which is perfect may come, then that which is in part shall become useless. ¹¹When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe; ¹²for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known; ¹³and now there doth remain faith, hope, love—these three; and the greatest of these is love.

Chapter 14

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1 Corinthians 13:11: When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.

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