Verse 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;

Referenced Verses

  • Acts 19:6 : 6 and Paul having laid on them `his' hands, the Holy Spirit came upon them, they were speaking also with tongues, and prophesying,
  • Heb 8:13 : 13 in the saying `new,' He hath made the first old, and what doth become obsolete and is old `is' nigh disappearing.
  • Acts 2:4 : 4 and 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 Cor 12:28-30 : 28 And some, indeed, did God set in the assembly, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, afterwards powers, afterwards gifts of healings, helpings, governings, divers kinds of tongues; 29 `are' all apostles? `are' all prophets? `are' all teachers? `are' all powers? 30 have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
  • 1 Cor 13:13 : 13 and now there doth remain faith, hope, love -- these three; and the greatest of these `is' love.
  • 1 Cor 14:39 : 39 so that, brethren, earnestly desire to prophesy, and to speak with tongues do not forbid;
  • Gal 5:6 : 6 for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith through love working.
  • 1 Cor 13:1-2 : 1 If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; 2 and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;
  • 1 Cor 13:10 : 10 and when that which is perfect may come, then that which `is' in part shall become useless.
  • 1 Cor 12:10 : 10 and 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:
  • Jer 49:7 : 7 Concerning Edom: `Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Is wisdom no more in Teman? Perished hath counsel from the intelligent? Vanished hath their wisdom?
  • Luke 22:32 : 32 and I besought for thee, that thy faith may not fail; and thou, when thou didst turn, strengthen thy brethren.'