Focused Passage

1 Corinthians 13:8-13

The More Excellent Way of Love

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8 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.

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 set aside childish ways.

12 Now we see but a dim 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.

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References and Original Words

Verse 8

Original words

- G3588 Article - Nominative Feminine Singular Love ἀγάπη G26 Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular never οὐδέποτε G3763 Adverb fails πίπτει G4098 Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular But δὲ G1161 Conjunction where εἴτε G1535 Conjunction [there are] prophecies προφητεῖαι G4394 Noun - Nominative Feminine Plural they will cease καταργηθήσονται G2673 Verb - Future Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Plural where εἴτε G1535 Conjunction [there are] tongues γλῶσσαι G1100 Noun - Nominative Feminine Plural they will be restrained παύσονται G3973 Verb - Future Indicative Middle - 3rd Person Plural where εἴτε G1535 Conjunction [there is] knowledge γνῶσις G1108 Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular it will be dismissed καταργηθήσεται G2673 Verb - Future Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Verse 9

Original words

For γὰρ G1063 Conjunction we know γινώσκομεν G1097 Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural in ἐκ G1537 Preposition part μέρους G3313 Noun - Genitive Neuter Singular and καὶ G2532 Conjunction we prophesy προφητεύομεν G4395 Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural in ἐκ G1537 Preposition part μέρους G3313 Noun - Genitive Neuter Singular
Verse 10

Original words

but δὲ G1161 Conjunction when ὅταν G3752 Conjunction the τὸ G3588 Article - Nominative Neuter Singular perfect τέλειον G5046 Adjective - Nominative Neuter Singular comes ἔλθῃ G2064 Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Active - 3rd Person Singular the τὸ G3588 Article - Nominative Neuter Singular vvv ἐκ G1537 Preposition partial μέρους G3313 Noun - Genitive Neuter Singular passes away καταργηθήσεται G2673 Verb - Future Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Verse 11

Original words

When Ὅτε G3753 Adverb I was ἤμην G1510 Verb - Imperfect Indicative Middle - 1st Person Singular a child νήπιος G3516 Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular I talked ἐλάλουν G2980 Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular like ὡς G5613 Adverb a child νήπιος G3516 Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular I thought ἐφρόνουν G5426 Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular like ὡς G5613 Adverb a child νήπιος G3516 Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular I reasoned ἐλογιζόμην G3049 Verb - Imperfect Indicative Middle or Passive - 1st Person Singular like ὡς G5613 Adverb a child νήπιος G3516 Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular When ὅτε G3753 Adverb I became γέγονα G1096 Verb - Perfect Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular a man ἀνήρ G435 Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular I set aside κατήργηκα G2673 Verb - Perfect Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular vvv τὰ G3588 Article - Accusative Neuter Plural vvv τοῦ G3588 Article - Genitive Masculine Singular childish ways νηπίου G3516 Adjective - Genitive Masculine Singular
Verse 12

Original words

- γὰρ G1063 Conjunction Now ἄρτι G737 Adverb we see βλέπομεν G991 Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural vvv ἐν G1722 Preposition but a dim reflection αἰνίγματι G135 Noun - Dative Neuter Singular as in δι’ G1223 Preposition a mirror ἐσόπτρου G2072 Noun - Genitive Neuter Singular - δὲ G1161 Conjunction then [we shall see] τότε G5119 Adverb face πρόσωπον G4383 Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular to πρὸς G4314 Preposition face πρόσωπον G4383 Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular Now ἄρτι G737 Adverb I know γινώσκω G1097 Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular in ἐκ G1537 Preposition part μέρους G3313 Noun - Genitive Neuter Singular - δὲ G1161 Conjunction then τότε G5119 Adverb I shall know fully ἐπιγνώσομαι G1921 Verb - Future Indicative Middle - 1st Person Singular even καὶ G2532 Conjunction as καθὼς G2531 Adverb I am fully known ἐπεγνώσθην G1921 Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 1st Person Singular
Verse 13

Original words

And δὲ G1161 Conjunction now Νυνὶ G3570 Adverb these ταῦτα G3778 Demonstrative Pronoun - Nominative Neuter Plural three τρία G5140 Adjective - Nominative Neuter Plural - τὰ G3588 Article - Nominative Neuter Plural remain μένει G3306 Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular faith πίστις G4102 Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular hope ἐλπίς G1680 Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular [and] love ἀγάπη G26 Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular but δὲ G1161 Conjunction [the] greatest μείζων G3173 Adjective - Nominative Feminine Singular - Comparative of these [is] τούτων G3778 Demonstrative Pronoun - Genitive Neuter Plural - G3588 Article - Nominative Feminine Singular love ἀγάπη G26 Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular

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