If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return. But what is more painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let that person know how you feel.
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如果我説方言的男人和天使的話語,卻沒有愛,我就成了鳴的鑼,響的鈸一般。如果我有預言的禮物、能夠洞悉所有的祕密和知識,如果我有一個信仰,可以移山,卻沒有愛,我什麼都沒有。如果我給窮人和放棄所有我擁有我的身體的火焰,卻沒有愛,我一無所獲。
愛是耐心,愛是善良的'。愛是不嫉妒,愛是不自誇,不驕傲。它不是粗魯的,它不是隻顧自己,不輕易發怒,不計較人的惡。
愛不喜歡不義的真相。它總是保護,凡事相信,凡事盼望,凡事忍耐。
愛是永不止息。但是哪裏有預言,他們將停止;哪裏有舌頭,他們將被壓抑了,哪裏有知識,它都會過去。我們知道在某種程度上,我們預言的部分,但是當完美,不完美的消失。當我還是個孩子的時候,話語像孩子,心思像孩子,意念像孩子。當我成為一個男人,我把孩子的事丟棄了。現在我們看到,但可憐的反射就像一面鏡子,然後我們將看到面對面。現在我知道在某種程度上,到那時就全知道,如同主知道我一樣。現在,這三個依然存在:信仰、希望和愛。其中最大的是愛。
這傷害了愛一個人,而不是被愛作為回報。但更痛苦的是愛一個人卻沒有勇氣讓那人知道你的感受。
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