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Ode to charity

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love
,
be like sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

And if I have the gift of prophecy
and understand all mysteries and all knowledge
and I have all faith so as to move mountains, but have not love
,
I am nothing.

And though I bestow all my goods,
and give my body to be burned,
but have not love, I gain nothing
.

Love is patient, is kind
charity

is not envious, does not boast,
not puffed up, does not lack respect,
not seek its own interests, not angry,
takes no account of evil;
does not rejoice
but rejoices with the truth.

endures all things, believes all things,
always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails.

Prophecies will cease;
the gift of tongues will cease, and science will vanish;
our knowledge is imperfect, and we prophesy
.
But when that which is perfect,
what is partial will pass away.

As a child I spake as a child, I thought
a child, I reasoned like a child.
I became a man, what a child I was abandoned.

now we see through a glass, darkly;
but then face to face.
Now I know in part but then shall I know perfectly well how
are known.

And now these three remain:
faith, hope and charity;
but the greatest of these is love!

S. Paul - First Corinthians 13: 1-13