1 Corinthians 13:8

Love for others Faithfulness and loyalty

⁶ Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.

⁷ It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love 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.

⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

¹⁰ but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Love 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.
KJV: 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.
WEB: Love 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.
ASV: Love never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall be done away; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall be done away.
DARBY: Love never fails; but whether prophecies, they shall be done away; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be done away.
BLB: Love never fails; but if [there are] prophecies, they will be made null; and if [there are] tongues, they will cease; and if [there is] knowledge, it will be made null.

ÅB: Kjærligheten faller aldri bort; men hva enten det er profetiske gaver, da skal de få ende, eller det er tunger, da skal de opphøre, eller det er kunnskap, da skal den få ende.
OTB: Kjærligheten faller aldri bort; men om det er profetier, skal de ta slutt; om det er tunger, skal de opphøre; om det er kunnskap, skal den forsvinne.
B1930: Kjærligheten faller aldri bort; men hvad enten det er profetiske gaver, da skal de få ende, eller det er tunger, da skal de ophøre, eller det er kunnskap, da skal den få ende.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

1 Corinthians 13:13
And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
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1 Corinthians 13:1–2
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.
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Galatians 5:6
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.
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Acts 2:4
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
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1 Corinthians 13:10
but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.
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Hebrews 8:13
By speaking of a new covenant, He has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.
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1 Corinthians 12:28–30
And in the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, and those with gifts of healing, helping, administration, and various tongues.
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Acts 19:6
And when Paul laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied.
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