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If I speak in the languages of peoples living and dead, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.<\/p>\n
If I have a PhD and can fathom all sorts of mysteries and significant amounts of knowledge, and if I have the common sense to know that \u201cfaith that can move mountains\u201d is a metaphor, but have not love, I am nothing.<\/p>\n
If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body for the purpose of scientific research or organ transplants, but have not love, I gain nothing.<\/p>\n
If I have knowledge of biology sufficient to keep me from falling for young-earth creationist claptrap and intelligent design pseudoscience, but have not love, I am but a prattling primate or a chattering chimpanzee.<\/p>\n
If I have an understanding of Biblical studies to rival the most famous scholars, and publications galore on my CV, but have not love, all I have written is like a hypothetical source lost in the sands of time.<\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
Love never fails. But where there is scholarship, it will go out of print; where there are discoveries, they will be superseded, or else will become familiar as common knowledge and seem ho hum to future generations; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we understand 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 chrome car bumper; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.<\/p>\n
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