If I Have Not Charity

Words: anonymous, from 1 Cor 13

Music:       Dwight Armstrong
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 1.  Tho' I speak with tongues of men, Tho' I speak as angels,
     If I have not charity I am become as nothing
     I become as sounding brass, Or a tinkling cymbal;
     With the gift of prophecy, Still I am as nothing.

 2.  Tho' I know all mysteries, Tho' I have all knowledge,
     If I have not charity, I am become as nothing.
     Tho' I give all I possess, Let my body burn;
     If I have not charity, Then I am as nothing.

 3.  Charity will suffer long, Charity is kind,
     Envies not nor vaunts itself, Behaveth not unseemly.
     Seeketh not to have here way, Nor is eas'ly angered;
     If I have not charity, Then I am as nothing.

 4.  Charity rejoiceth not in iniquity,
     But rejoiceth in the truth; Believes and bears all things;
     Hopes all things, endures all things; Never thinketh evil.
     If I have not charity, Then I am as nothing.

 5.  Whether there be prophecies, Whether there be knowledge,
     These shall likewise pass away, But charity remaineth.
     Faith and hope and charity; All of these abide;
     But among the three of these, Charity is greatest.

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