1 Corinthians 13:8
Loue doeth neuer fall away, though that prophecyings be abolished, or the tongues cease, or knowledge vanish away.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
7It suffreth all things: it beleeueth all things: it hopeth all things: it endureth all things.
9For we knowe in part, and we prophecie in part.
Cross References
Jeremiah 49:7To Edom thus sayeth the Lord of hostes: Is wisdome no more in Teman? is counsel perished from their children? is their wisdome vanished?
Acts 2:4And they were all filled with the holy Ghost, and began to speake with other tongues, as the Spirit gaue them vtterance.
1 Corinthians 12:10And to another the operations of great workes: and to another, prophecie: and to another, the discerning of spirits: and to another, diuersities of tongues: and to another, the interpretation of tongues.
1 Corinthians 13:1Though I speake with the tongues of men and Angels, and haue not loue, I am as sounding brasse, or a tinkling cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:13And nowe abideth faith, hope and loue, euen these three: but the chiefest of these is loue.
Galatians 5:6For in Iesus Christ neither circumcision auaileth any thing, neither vncircumcision, but faith which worketh by loue.
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 →