42 A SONG OF DIVINE LOVE
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| Refrain: | Love bears all things* and will never come to an end. | ||
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Love is patient and kind,* love is not jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant or rude. | ||
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Love does not insist on its own way,* it is not angry or resentful. | ||
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It does not rejoice in wrongdoing* but rejoices in the truth. | ||
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Love bears all things and believes all things;* love hopes all things and endures all things. | ||
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Love will never come to an end,* but prophecy will vanish, tongues cease and knowledge pass away. | ||
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Now we know only in part* and we prophesy only in part, | ||
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But when the perfect comes,* the imperfect shall pass away. | ||
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When I was a child, I spoke like a child,* I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. | ||
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But when I became mature,* I put an end to childish ways. | ||
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For now we see only puzzling reflections in a mirror,* but then we will see face to face. | ||
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Then I shall understand fully,* even as I have been fully understood. | ||
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There are three things that last for ever, faith, hope and love,* but the greatest of these is love. | ||
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Love bears all things* and will never come to an end. | |||