1 Corinthians 13:8
Love never fails. But, whether it be the gift of preaching, it will end; whether it be the gift of ‘tongues,’ it will cease; whether it be knowledge, it, too, will vanish.
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In Context
7love bears with all things, ever trustful, ever hopeful, ever patient.
9For our knowledge is incomplete, and our preaching is incomplete,
Cross References
Acts 2:4and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in different languages as the Spirit prompted their utterances.
1 Corinthians 12:10to another the gift of preaching; to another the gift of distinguishing between true and false inspiration; to another varieties of the gift of ‘tongues’; to another the power to interpret ‘tongues.’
1 Corinthians 13:1Though I speak in the ‘tongues’ of people, or even of angels, yet have not love, I have become mere echoing brass, or a clanging cymbal!
1 Corinthians 13:13Meanwhile faith, hope, and love endure – these three, but the greatest of these is love.
Galatians 5:6If we are in union with Christ Jesus, neither is circumcision nor the omission of it anything, but faith, working through love, is everything.
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 →