1 Corinthians 13:8
Love never fails. But if there are prophecies, they will be done away with; if there are languages, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be brought to an end.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
7She knows how to be silent. She is full of trust, full of hope, full of patient endurance.
9For our knowledge is imperfect, and so is our prophesying;
Cross References
Acts 2:4They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in foreign languages according as the Spirit gave them words to utter.
1 Corinthians 12:10to another the exercise of miraculous powers; to another the gift of prophecy; to another the power of discriminating between prophetic utterances; to another varieties of the gift of `tongues;' to another the interpretation of tongues.
1 Corinthians 13:1If I can speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but am destitute of Love, I have but become a loud-sounding trumpet or a clanging cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:13And so there remain Faith, Hope, Love--these three; and of these the greatest is Love.
Galatians 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is of any importance; but only faith working 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 →