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1 Corinthians 13

Love

1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If 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, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When 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. 12Now 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.

13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

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the meaning of life

according to Merriam-Webster is:

life /laɪf/ noun, plural lives

1. a: the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body b: a principle or force that is considered to underlie the distinctive quality of animate beings c: an organismic state characterized by capacity for metabolism, growth, reaction to stimuli, and reproduction

2. a: the sequence of physical and mental experiences that make up the existence of an individual b: one or more aspects of the process of living [sex life of the frog]

3. biography

4. spiritual existence transcending physical death

5. a: the period from birth to death b: a specific phase of earthly existence [adult life] c: the period from an event until death [a judge appointed for life] d: a sentence of imprisonment for the remainder of a convict's life

6. a way or manner of living

7. livelihood

8. a vital or living being; specifically : person [many lives were lost in the disaster]

9. an animating and shaping force or principle

10. spirit, animation [saw no life in her dancing]

11. the form or pattern of something existing in reality [painted from life]

12. the period of duration, usefulness, or popularity of something [the expected life of the batteries]

13. the period of existence (as of a subatomic particle) — compare half-life

14. a property (as resilience or elasticity) of an inanimate substance or object resembling the animate quality of a living being

15. living beings (as of a particular kind or environment) [forest life]

16. a: human activities b: animate activity and movement [stirrings of life] c: the activities of a given sphere, area, or time [the political life of the country]

17. one providing interest and vigor [life of the party]

18. an opportunity for continued viability [gave the patient a new life]

19. capitalized Christian Science : god

20. something resembling animate life [a grant saved the project's life]