1 Corinthians 13:8
Charity never falleth away: whether prophecies shall be made void, or tongues shall cease, or knowledge shall be destroyed.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
7Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
Cross References
Jeremiah 49:7Against Edom. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Is wisdom no more in Theman? counsel is perished from her children: their wisdom is become unprofitable.
Acts 2:4And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they began to speak with divers tongues, according as the Holy Ghost gave them to speak.
1 Corinthians 12:10To another, the working of miracles; to another, prophecy; to another, the discerning of spirits; to another, diverse kinds of tongues; to another, interpretation of speeches.
1 Corinthians 13:1If I speak with the tongues of men, and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:13And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity.
Galatians 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision: but faith that worketh by charity.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 13:5-8
Charity Described. ( a. d. 57.) 4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. The apostle gives us in these verses some of the properties and effects of charity, both to describe and commend it, that we may know whether… Read the whole commentary →