1 CORINTHIANS 13:8 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Charity 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.”
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away — agapē never ekpiptō (falls away, fails), establishing its eschatological permanence; by contrast, prophecy (when the telos comes), tongues, and gnōsis are pauo (cease), revealing their temporary, preparatory nature in the economy of salvation.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 13:8
“Love never fails.” Do you see when he put the crown on the arch, and what of all things is peculiar to this gift? For what is, “fails not?” it is not severed, is not dissolved by endurance. For it puts up with everything: since happen what will, he that loves never can hate. This then is the greatest of its excellencies. Such a person was Paul. Wherefore also he said, “If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh;” Romans 11:14 and he continued…
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