1 Corinthians 13:8
The love doth never fail; and whether [there be] prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
7all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth.
9for in part we know, and in part we prophecy;
Cross References
Jeremiah 49:7Concerning Edom: 'Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Is wisdom no more in Teman? Perished hath counsel from the intelligent? Vanished hath their wisdom?
Acts 2:4and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, according as the Spirit was giving them to declare.
1 Corinthians 12:10and to another in-workings of mighty deeds; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits; and to another [divers] kinds of tongues; and to another interpretation of tongues:
1 Corinthians 13:1If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;
1 Corinthians 13:13and now there doth remain faith, hope, love — these three; and the greatest of these [is] love.
Galatians 5:6for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith through love working.
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 →