1 Corinthians 13:8
Charity never faileth: but as to prophecies, they shall be abolished; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be laid aside.
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
In Context
7covereth all faults, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
9For now we know but in part, and we prophesy but in part.
Cross References
Acts 2:4and they were all filled with the holy Spirit, and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
1 Corinthians 12:10to another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another the discerning of spirits; to another various kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
1 Corinthians 13:1For if I speak with the tongues of men and angels, and have not charity, I am but as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:13And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three graces; but the greatest of these is love.
Galatians 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith which worketh 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 →