Substitute the word for what the word stands for = God
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love [God], I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 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 [God], I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love [God], I gain nothing. 4 Love [God] is patient, love [God] is kind. It [God] does not envy, it [God] does not boast, it [God] is not proud. 5It [God] is not rude, it [God] is not self-seeking, it [God] is not easily angered, it [God] keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love [God] does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It [God] always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love [God] never fails. But where there are prophecies, they [God] will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it [God] will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when perfection [God] comes, the imperfect disappears. 11 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. 12 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. 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love [God]. But the greatest of these is love [God].
I Corinthians 13 NIV
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