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by Bible or other Sacred Texts

Love is patient, love is kind
Language: English 
Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy or boast, it is not proud.
Love bears all things, believes all things,
hopes and endures all things.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels,
If I have not love, I am as sounding brass,
Or a tinkling cymbal.
Though I have the gift of prophecy, understand all mysteries,
Know all things, and though my faith could move mountains,
If I have not love, I am nothing.
Though I give away all I have, and my body to the flames
If I have not love, I am nothing.

Love does not fail, but prophecy shall cease,
tongues shall be stilled and knowledge shall vanish away.
For we see as in a glass darkly, but then face to face.

When I was a child I spoke as a child I thought as a child
I reasoned as a child, but now I am grown
I put away childish things.

Text Authorship:

  • by Bible or other Sacred Texts , St Paul, 1 Corinthians 13 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Gordon Kerry (b. 1961), "Love is patient, love is kind", 2005 [ children's chorus and instrumental ensemble ], from For those in peril on the sea, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2022-06-20
Line count: 18
Word count: 161

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