1 Corinthians 13:8
Love never fails; but though there are prophecies, they will fail; though there are tongues, they will cease; though there is knowledge, it will be superseded.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
7It knows how to be silent, it is trustful, hopeful, patient, enduring.
9For our knowing is imperfect, and our prophesying is imperfect;
Cross References
Acts 2:4and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit was giving them utterance.
1 Corinthians 12:10to another the powers which work miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits; to another varieties of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
1 Corinthians 13:1Though I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have no love, I am become a clanging brass, or a clashing cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:13Faith, Hope, Love endure - these three; but the greatest of these is Love.
Galatians 5:6because in Christ neither circumcision has any value, nor uncircumcision, but faith which works through 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 →