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.
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Interpretation
Charity is much to be preferred to the gifts on which the Corinthians prided themselves. From its longer continuance.
Read with
This thought runs through 1 Corinthians 13:8-10.
Glossary
- Tongues, Confusion of People
- At Babel, the cause of the early separation of mankind and their division into nations. The descendants of Noah built a tower to prevent their dispersion; but God “confounded their language”.