8Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
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And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. …
For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-13)Here the apostle goes on to commend charity, and show how much it is preferable to the gifts on which the Corinthians were so apt to pride themselves, to the utter neglect, and almost extinction, of charity. This he makes out, I. From its longer continuance and duration: Charity never faileth . It is a permanent and perpetual grace, lasting as eternity; whereas the extraordinary gifts on which the…
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