1 Corinthians 13:8
Divine love never falls: but whether there are prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there are tongues, they shall cease; whether there is knowledge, it shall vanish away.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
7it bears all things, it believes all things, it hopes all things, it endures all things.
9For we know in part, and prophesy in part:
Cross References
Acts 2:4and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
1 Corinthians 12:10and to another the workings of dynamites; and to another prophecy, and to another discernment of spirits; and to another kinds of tongues, and to another interpretation of tongues:
1 Corinthians 13:1If I may speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not divine love, I have become a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:13But now abide faith, hope, divine love, these three; but the greatest of these is divine love.
Galatians 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision or uncircumcision avails anything; but faith working through divine 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 →