| Ean tais glosais toon antropoon lalo
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| kai toon angeloon,
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| agapen de me echo,
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| gegona chalcos echoon e kumbalon alaladzon.
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| Kai ean echo profeteian,
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| kai eido ta mysteria panta,
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| pistin ore metistanai,
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| agapen de me echo, outen eimi
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| He agape makrotumai, chresteuetai
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| he agape ou dzelloi, erpereuetai, ou fysioutai.
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| panta stegei, panta pisteuei, panta elpizei, panta upomenei.
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| He agape oudepotte piptei
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| eite de profeteiai, katargetezontai,
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| eite glosai, pausontai,
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| eite gnossis katargetesetai
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| Nuni de menei, pistis, elpis, agape,
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| ta tria tauta, meidzoon de toutoon, he agape.
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| English Translation
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| If with the tongues of men I speak,
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| and of angels,
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| Love I do not have,
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| I have become a gong resounding or cymbal clanging.
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| And if I have the gift of prophecy,
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| and know mysteries all,
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| faith mountains move,
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| Love I do not have, nothing I am.
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| Love is generous, virtuous,
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| Love does not envy, boast, not proud is.
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| All she protects, all she trusts, all she hopes, all she perseveres.
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| Love never she fails. |
| Be it prophecies, they will cease,
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| Be it tongues, they will be stilled, be it knowledge it will cease.
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| So remain, Faith, Hope and Love, these three. |
| But the greatest of these is Love. |