1 Corinthians 13:8

American Standard Version (1901)

Love never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall be done away; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall be done away.

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  • Acts 19:6 : 6 And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
  • Heb 8:13 : 13 In that he saith, A new [covenant] he hath made the first old. But that which is becoming old and waxeth aged is nigh unto vanishing away.
  • Acts 2:4 : 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
  • 1 Cor 12:28-30 : 28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, [divers] kinds of tongues. 29 Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all [workers of] miracles? 30 have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
  • 1 Cor 13:13 : 13 But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
  • 1 Cor 14:39 : 39 Wherefore, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
  • Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love.
  • 1 Cor 13:1-2 : 1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have [the gift of] prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
  • 1 Cor 13:10 : 10 but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.
  • 1 Cor 12:10 : 10 and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits; to another [divers] kinds of tongues; and to another the interpretation of tongues: [
  • Jer 49:7 : 7 Of Edom. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?
  • Luke 22:32 : 32 but I made supplication for thee, that thy faith fail not; and do thou, when once thou hast turned again, establish thy brethren.

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  • 1 Cor 13:7
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    7beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

  • 1 Cor 13:9-10
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    9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;

    10but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.

  • 1 Cor 13:1-5
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    1If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

    2And if I have [the gift of] prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

    3And if I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.

    4Love suffereth long, [and] is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

    5doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;

  • 1 Cor 13:12-13
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    12For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known.

    13But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

  • 1 Cor 14:1-2
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    1Follow after love; yet desire earnestly spiritual [gifts], but rather that ye may prophesy.

    2For he that speaketh in a tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God; for no man understandeth; but in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.

  • 1 Cor 8:1-3
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    1Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.

    2If any man thinketh that he knoweth anything, he knoweth not yet as he ought to know;

    3but if any man loveth God, the same is known by him.

  • 1 Cor 16:14
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    14Let all that ye do be done in love.

  • 1 Cor 14:38-40
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    38But if any man is ignorant, let him be ignorant.

    39Wherefore, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.

    40But let all things be done decently and in order.

  • 1 Cor 14:5-7
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    5Now I would have you all speak with tongues, but rather that ye should prophesy: and greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.

    6But now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching?

    7Even things without life, giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, if they give not a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?

  • 1 Pet 4:8
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    8above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

  • 1 Cor 12:30-31
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    30have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

    31But desire earnestly the greater gifts. And moreover a most excellent way show I unto you.

  • 2 Cor 8:7-8
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    7But as ye abound in everything, [in] faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and [in] all earnestness, and [in] your love to us, [see] that ye abound in this grace also. [

    8I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

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    18[ My] Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

  • Heb 13:1
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    1Let love of the brethren continue.

  • 1 Cor 14:12-14
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    12So also ye, since ye are zealous of spiritual [gifts], seek that ye may abound unto the edifying of the church.

    13Wherefore let him that speaketh in a tongue pray that he may interpret.

    14For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.

  • 1 Cor 14:9-10
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    9So also ye, unless ye utter by the tongue speech easy to understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye will be speaking into the air.

    10There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and no [kind] is without signification.

  • 1 Cor 14:21-23
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    21In the law it is written, By men of strange tongues and by the lips of strangers will I speak unto this people; and not even thus will they hear me, saith the Lord.

    22Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to the unbelieving: but prophesying [is for a sign], not to the unbelieving, but to them that believe.

    23If therefore the whole church be assembled together and all speak with tongues, and there come in men unlearned or unbelieving, will they not say that ye are mad?

  • 1 John 4:8
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    8He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

  • 1 Cor 14:26
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    26What is it then, brethren? When ye come together, each one hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a revelation, hath a tongue, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.

  • 2 Pet 1:7-8
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    7and in [your] godliness brotherly kindness; and in [your] brotherly kindness love.

    8For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • Col 3:14
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    14and above all these things [put on] love, which is the bond of perfectness.

  • Matt 24:35
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    35Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

  • 1 Tim 1:5
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    5But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned:

  • Mark 13:31
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    31Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.

  • 2 Cor 13:11
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    11Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfected; be comforted; be of the same mind; live in peace: and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

  • John 13:35
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    35By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

  • Rom 13:10
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    10Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: love therefore is the fulfilment of the law.

  • 1 Cor 14:19
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    19howbeit in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

  • 1 Cor 14:28
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    28but if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.