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The Supremacy of Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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Chapter 13
1 If I speak with the tongues of humans and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a sounding bronze or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have the gift of prophecy and know all the mysteries and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith so as to move mountains, but I do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give away all my possessions as alms, and if I hand over my body so that I may be burned, but I do not have love, I am profited nothing. 4 Love is patient, love is kind. Love does not envy, love does not boast, and does not puff up. 5 does not act shamefully, does not seek its own things, is not provoked, does not reckon the evil. 6 does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth. 7 It bears all things, it believes all things, it hopes all things, it endures all things. 8 Love never falls. But whether there are prophecies, they will be rendered powerless; whether there are tongues, they will stop; whether there is knowledge, it will be rendered powerless. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 but when the teleios comes, the from-part will be nullified. 11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reckoned as a child; when I became a man, I put away the things of the child. 12 For now we see through a mirror in a riddle, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will fully know just as also I was fully known. 13 Now, however, faith, hope, love remain—these three; but the greatest of these is love.