1 Corinthians 13:8

WEB

⁸Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

KJV

⁸Charity 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.

BSB

⁸Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed.

FBV

⁸Love never fails. Prophecies will come to an end. Tongues will become silent. Knowledge will become useless.

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Extra References

1 Corinthians 13:13

¹³But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

¹If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. ²If 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 don’t have love, I am nothing.

Galatians 5:6

⁶For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision amounts to anything, but faith working through love.

1 Corinthians 13:10

¹⁰but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.

Acts 2:4

⁴They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.

Hebrews 8:13

¹³In that he says, “A new covenant”, he has made the first obsolete. But that which is becoming obsolete and grows aged is near to vanishing away.

1 Corinthians 12:10

¹⁰and to another workings of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of languages, and to another the interpretation of languages.

Acts 19:6

⁶When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them and they spoke with other languages and prophesied.

1 Corinthians 12:28-30

²⁸God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages. ²⁹Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all miracle workers? ³⁰Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with various languages? Do all interpret?

Jeremiah 49:7

⁷Of Edom, the LORD of Armies says: “Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?