1 If I speak in ___ and ____ tongues but do not have love, I am a ____ gong or a ____ cymbal.2 And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend ___ mysteries and ___ knowledge; if I have ___ faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.3 If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.4 Love is ___, love is ___. It is not ___, love is not ____, it is not ____,5 it is not ____, it does not seek its own interests, it is not ____, it does not brood over injury,6 it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.7 It bears ____ things, believes ____ things, hopes ____ things, endures ____ things.8 Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing.9 For we know partially and we prophesy partially,10 but when the ____ comes, the ____ will pass away.11 When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside ____ things.12 At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known.13 So faith, hope, love remain, these three ; but the ____ of these is love.
Fiddler: I'm not American; and was partly teasing. But yes, 'Believable change' is a more credible slogan, and hence paradoxically suited to the anti-adjectivalists, than 'Change we can believe in'. The latter tries cutely to imply change that is both credible and yet inspiring, faithworthy. Such verbal promiscuity was achieved with a simple, adjective free phrase.
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