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1 Corinthians 13:8

love never fails. Now as for prophecies, they will be set aside; as for languages, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will be superseded;

Family 35 New Testament

In The King James Version

Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

In Context

7it bears all, believes all, hopes all, endures all;

9since we know in part and prophesy in part.

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Cross References

Acts 2:4And they were all filled with Holy Spirit and began to speak different languages, as the Spirit was granting to them to speak out.

1 Corinthians 12:10to another workings of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discernings of spirits; to a different one kinds of languages, to another interpretation of languages.

1 Corinthians 13:1If I speak the languages of men, even of angels, but have not love, I have become a sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

1 Corinthians 13:13For now these three obtain: faith, hope, love; and the greatest of these is love.

Galatians 5:6Because in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.

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 →

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