1 Corinthians 13:8 — King James Version← Study notes
“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.”
1 Corinthians 13:8 — Greek Interlinear
Greek · 1 Corinthians 13:814 words
ℹGreek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.
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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