1 Corinthians 13:8
Love never fails. Prophecies will come to an end. Tongues will become silent. Knowledge will become useless.
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7Love never gives up, keeps on trusting, stays confident, and remains patient whatever happens.
9For our knowledge and our prophetic understanding are incomplete.
Cross References
Jeremiah 49:7This is what the Lord Almighty says about Edom: Aren't there any wise people left in Teman? Isn't there any good advice from those with insight? Has their wisdom rotted away?
Acts 2:4All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different languages as the Spirit gave them the ability to do so.
1 Corinthians 12:10Another is given the ability to perform miracles. Another receives the gift of prophecy. Another is given the gift of spiritual discernment. Another receives the ability to speak different languages, while another is given the gift of interpreting languages.
1 Corinthians 13:1If I were to have eloquence in human languages—even the language of angels—but have no love, then I would only be an echoing gong or a clashing cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:13Trust, hope, and love last forever—but the most important is love.
Galatians 5:6For in Christ Jesus being circumcised or uncircumcised doesn't achieve anything; it's only trust working through love that matters.
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 →