012:023 and those which we deem less honorable we clothe with more abundant honor; and so our ungraceful parts come to have a more abundant grace, while our graceful parts have everything they need. 012:024 But it was God who built up the body, and bestowed more abundant honor on the part that felt the need, 012:025 that there might be no disunion in the body, but that all the members might entertain the same anxious care for one another's welfare. 012:026 And if one part is suffering, every other part suffers with it; or if one part is receiving special honor, every other part shares in the joy. 012:027 As for you, you are the body of Christ, and individually you are members of it. 012:028 And by God's appointment there are in the Church-- first Apostles, secondly Prophets, thirdly teachers. Then come miraculous powers, and then ability to cure diseases or render loving service, or powers of organization, or varieties of the gift of `tongues.' 012:029 Are all Apostles? Are all Prophets? Are all teachers? 012:030 Have all miraculous powers? Have all ability to cure diseases? Do all speak in `tongues'? Do all interpret? 012:031 But always seek to excel in the greater gifts. And now I will point out to you a way of life which transcends all others. 013:001 If I can speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but am destitute of Love, I have but become a loud-sounding trumpet or a clanging cymbal. 013:002 If I possess the gift of prophecy and am versed in all mysteries and all knowledge, and have such absolute faith that I can remove mountains, but am destitute of Love, I am nothing. 013:003 And if I distribute all my possessions to the poor, and give up my body to be burned, but am destitute of Love, it profits me nothing. 013:004 Love is patient and kind. Love knows neither envy nor jealousy. Love is not forward and self-assertive, nor boastful and conceited. 013:005 She does not behave unbecomingly, nor seek to aggrandize herself, nor blaze out in passionate anger, nor brood over wrongs. 013:006 She finds no pleasure in injustice done to others, but joyfully sides with the truth. 013:007 She knows how to be silent. She is full of trust, full of hope, full of patient endurance. 013:008 Love never fails. But if there are prophecies, they will be done away with; if there are languages, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be brought to an end. 013:009 For our knowledge is imperfect, and so is our prophesying; 013:010 but when the perfect state of things is come, all that is imperfect will be brought to an end. 013:011 When I was a child, I talked like a child, felt like a child, reasoned like a child: when I became a man, I put from me childish ways.