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1 Corinthians 13:8

Love never falleth; for prophecies shall be abolished, and tongues be silent, and knowledge be abolished:

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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 endureth every thing, believeth every thing; it hopeth all, endureth all.

9for it is a little of much that we know, and a little of much we prophesy;

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Cross References

Acts 2:4And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak in several tongues as the Spirit gave them to speak.

1 Corinthians 12:10but to another, powers; to another, prophecy; to another, the discernment of spirits; but to another, kinds of tongues; and to another, the interpretation of tongues.

1 Corinthians 13:1Though in every tongue of men and of angels I spoke, and had not love, I should be as brass which soundeth, or a cymbal which giveth voice.

1 Corinthians 13:13For these are the three that remain, faith and hope and love; but the greatest of these is love.

Galatians 5:6For, in the Meshiha Jeshu, circumcision is not any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith which is made perfect by 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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