1 Corinthians 13:8
Good News Translation
Love is eternal. There are inspired messages, but they are temporary; there are gifts of speaking in strange tongues, but they will cease; there is knowledge, but it will pass.

New Revised Standard Version
Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end.

Contemporary English Version
Love never fails! Everyone who prophesies will stop, and unknown languages will no longer be spoken. All that we know will be forgotten.

New American Bible
Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Charity never falleth away: whether prophecies shall be made void or tongues shall cease or knowledge shall be destroyed.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Charity never falleth away: whether prophecies shall be made void or tongues shall cease or knowledge shall be destroyed.

never.

1 Corinthians 13:10,13 But when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away. . . .

Luke 22:32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and thou, being once converted, confirm thy brethren.

Galatians 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision: but faith that worketh by Charity.

tongues.

1 Corinthians 13:1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

1 Corinthians 12:10,28-30 To another the working of miracles: to another, prophecy: to another, the discerning of spirits: to another, diverse kinds of tongues: to another, interpretation of speeches. . . .

1 Corinthians 14:39 Wherefore, brethren, be zealous to prophesy: and forbid not to speak with tongues.

Acts 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost: and they began to speak with divers tongues, according as the Holy Ghost gave them to speak.

Acts 19:6 And when Paul had imposed his hands on them, the Holy Ghost came upon them: and they spoke with tongues and prophesied.

vanish.

Jeremiah 49:7 Against Edom. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Is wisdom no more in Theman? counsel is perished from her children: their wisdom is become unprofitable.

Hebrews 8:13 Now in saying a new, he hath made the former old. And that which decayeth and groweth old is near its end.

Context
Love
7Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 8Charity never falleth away: whether prophecies shall be made void or tongues shall cease or knowledge shall be destroyed. 9For we know in part: and we prophesy in part.…
Cross References
Acts 13:1
Now there were in the church which was at Antioch prophets and doctors, among whom was Barnabas and Simon who was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene and Manahen who was the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

1 Corinthians 8:2
And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he hath not yet known as he ought to know.

1 Corinthians 12:10
To another the working of miracles: to another, prophecy: to another, the discerning of spirits: to another, diverse kinds of tongues: to another, interpretation of speeches.

1 Corinthians 13:1
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

1 Corinthians 13:2
And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:7
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