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What praise will be given to one who through the Spirit has received the gift of speaking in one language or another? For 1 Corinthians 13:1. if I... spoke in the tongues of men or angels, but did not have love, then I became (would) then seem ringing brass or sounding cymbal. Just as brass or a cymbal are soulless objects and produce sounds from someone else’s voice and tone, so anyone who speaks with a tongue, if he does not know what he is saying, is like brass, for he does not understand the meaning of the voice. Against those who were puffed up by prophecy, knowledge and faith, he says: 1 Corinthians 13:2. and if I have prophecies about, if... I knew the secrets... everything, open to you, let, in addition, let me be given all the “knowledge”, instead of a small share of the knowledge communicated to you, and let, moreover, there be in me not that little faith that you have - but If I have all the faith, so much so that I could move mountains, but... love... I won’t have it - nothing... I will. Since some exalted themselves over their neighbors: some with the generosity of their alms, others with their suffering for the Gospel, he said against them: 1 Corinthians 13:3. and if... I'll give it away, - I have everything in my name, and if I betray my body, but if I don’t have love, it will be of no use to me.... This is the same thing that our Lord said: “Do not give your alms as if for show, for people, otherwise you will not have any reward... with your Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 6:1). 1 Corinthians 13:4. Love is long-suffering and merciful, contrary to what (albeit differently) you act towards each other. Love does not seek what is useful to itself, but what is useful to many for their salvation. So, if the qualities I have listed do not appear in you due to a lack of love, then what benefit will it bring you to boast about the gifts that you are proud of (1 Cor. 13:5-7)? 1 Corinthians 13:8. love never falls away, that is, it is not destroyed, as our gifts that you have are destroyed, as well as - will be abolished, and tongues... will cease. 1 Corinthians 13:9. For although we know in part, after all, we know as much as we should know. 1 Corinthians 13:10. When perfection comes, then... it will be abolished,... which is partly . Just as your childish thoughts were destroyed before the knowledge that you now have, so our present knowledge must be destroyed before the knowledge that we will acquire in the future (1 Cor. 13:11). 1 Corinthians 13:12. We see... now, as through a mirror, in a riddle, in the perfect state there will be truth, which means: face to face. Now... I know... in part, but in a perfect state I know not as I have known, but as God has known me through my works. So, before all the gifts with which you exalt yourself, there remain 1 Corinthians 13:13. faith, hope, love; for it is of great importance to believe that there is a God, and to hope for what one believes, and also to love the commandments of Him from whom we hope to receive gifts. You might be interested in: