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1. I may speak with every tongue that men and angels use; yet, if I lack charity, I am no better than echoing bronze, or the clash of cymbals.

2. I may have powers of prophecy, no secret hidden from me, no knowledge too deep for me; I may have utter faith, so that I can move mountains; yet if I lack charity, I count for nothing.✻

3. I may give away all that I have, to feed the poor; I may give myself up to be burnt at the stake; if I lack charity, it goes for nothing.✻

4. Charity is patient, is kind; charity feels no envy; charity is never perverse or proud,

5. never insolent;✻ does not claim its rights, cannot be provoked, does not brood over an injury;

6. takes no pleasure in wrong-doing, but rejoices at the victory of truth;

7. sustains, believes, hopes, endures, to the last.

8. The time will come when we shall outgrow prophecy, when speaking with tongues will come to an end, when knowledge will be swept away; we shall never have finished with charity.

9. Our knowledge, our prophecy, are only glimpses of the truth;

10. and these glimpses will be swept away when the time of fulfilment comes.

11. (Just so, when I was a child, I talked like a child, I had the intelligence, the thoughts of a child; since I became a man, I have outgrown childish ways.)

12. At present, we are looking at a confused reflection in a mirror; then, we shall see face to face; now, I have only glimpses of knowledge; then, I shall recognize God as he has recognized me.

13. Meanwhile, faith, hope and charity persist, all three; but the greatest of them all is charity.✻


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