8 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. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
- The greatest last forever
- never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end
- The temporary things in life won’t last forever
- prophecies, they will cease
- tongues, they will be stilled
- knowledge, it will pass away
- All believers will one day be complete
- But when the complete and perfect (total) comes
- Incomplete and imperfect will become antiquated, void, and superseded
- One day we will fully understand
- When I was a child, I talked (tongues)(prophecies)like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned (knowledge)like a child
- It is the love that lasts and builds or hope and faith
- greatest of these is love.
- My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
- Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
- And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
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