Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Verse 1 Corinthians 13:9. _FOR WE KNOW IN PART_] We have here butlittle knowledge even of _earthly_, and much less of _heavenly_,things. He that knows most knows little in comparison of what is kno...
Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
FOR WE KNOW IN PART - Compare the note on 1 Corinthians 12:27. Thisexpression means “only in part;” that is, “imperfectly.” Ourknowledge here is imperfect and obscure. It may, therefore, all vanish...
Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein
3. THE NEED AND SUPERIORITY OF LOVE.CHAPTER 13__1. The Preeminence of Love. (1 Corinthians 13:1 .)2. Love described in its characteristics. (1 Corinthians 13:4 .)3. Love never faileth; its Pe...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible
1 CORINTHIANS 13. ALL GIFTS AND SACRIFICES ARE WORTHLESS WITHOUT LOVE,WHICH IS SUPREME AND INCOMPARABLE. The chapter falls into threedivisions: (_a)_ superlative gifts and costliest surrenders arev...
Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)
THE HYMN OF LOVE (1 Corinthians 13:1-13)13 I may speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but if I havenot love, I am become no better than echoing brass or a clangingcymbal. I may have the gi...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
KNOW. App-132.IN PART. Greek. _ek_ (App-104.) _merous._...
Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
_and we prophesy in part_ All inspired utterances are but partialrevelations of Divine Truth....
Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
1 Corinthians 12:31 Ch. 1 Corinthians 13:13. The Excellencies of Love_and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way_ Literally, ANDFURTHERMORE I SHEW YOU AN EMINENTLY EXCELLENT WAY, i.e. the way ofl...
Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary
1 Corinthians 12:31 to 1 Corinthians 13:13. THE EXCELLENCIES OF LOVEΚΑῚ ἜΤΙ ΚΑΘ' ὙΠΕΡΒΟΛῊΝ ὉΔῸΝ ὙΜΙ͂ΝΔΕΊΚΝΥΜΙ. AND MOREOVER I SHEW YOU A WAY OF SUPERLATIVEEXCELLENCE. This, St Paul would have us un...
Charles Box Commentaries
_THE UNPERISHABLE NATURE OF LOVE 1 CORINTHIANS 13:8-10:_ Love is saidto "never fail," though the miraculous spiritual gifts were to be made"null" or "useless" in time. "Charity never faileth: but wh...
Charles Rose Commentaries
ΈΚ ΜΈΡΟΥΣ (G1537; G3304) отчасти, частично.Оба раза это слово выделено в данномстихе (RWP)....
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae
DISCOURSE: 1987THE SAINTS’ VIEWS IN HEAVEN1 Corinthians 13:9. We know in part, and we prophecy in part. But whenthat which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall bedone away. When I...
co*ke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
FOR WE KNOW IN PART, &C.— The wisest of men have here but short,narrow, imperfect conceptions even of the things round about them; andmuch more of the deep things of God: and even the prophesies whi...
College Press Bible Study Textbook Series
BUTLER'S COMMENTSSECTION 3Giftedness is Temporary, Love is Eternal (1 Corinthians 13:8-13)8 Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as fortongues, they will cease; as for knowle...
College Press Bible Study Textbook Series
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS_Text_1 Corinthians 13:8-12. Love never faileth: but whether there beprophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, theyshall cease; whether there be knowledge...
Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch
13 The body of Jesus, or of the Lord, denotes His physical frame. Thebody of Christ, however, is quite a distinct thought. Christ, or theAnointed, is a title rather than a name. It suggests official...
Darby's translation notes (1890)
13:9 know (e-3) _ Ginosko_ . see Note, ch. 8.1....
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
IN PART] partially, imperfectly....
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
LOVE IS ETERNAL. Other gifts, knowledge, prophecy, tongues serve but atemporary purpose. 'They are only means towards an end. Love remainsthe completion and perfection of our human being' (F. W. Rob...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
_(e) Spiritual Gifts(ii) The most excellent Gift of Charity_In this chapter we enter into the purest atmosphere and breathe themost fragrant odours. Passing from the previous Chapter s with theirt...
EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries
SERVANTS OF CHRIST1 CORINTHIANS_HILDA BRIGHT_CHAPTER 13LOVE 13:1-131. THE ABSENCE OF LOVE 13:1-3V1 Suppose that I speak in the languages of people and *angels. If Ihave no love, I am onl...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
WE KNOW IN PART. — Knowledge and preaching are incomplete;therefore, when this dispensation ends, and the complete dispensationis brought in, these imperfect gifts shall cease. Gifts are but theimp...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)
CHAPTER 19NO GIFT LIKE LOVETHIS is one of the passages of Scripture which an expositor scruplesto touch. Some of the bloom and delicacy of surface passes from theflower in the very handling whic...
Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)
1 Corinthians 13:9-10 : reasons why _Prophecy_ and _Knowledge_ must beabolished. Though amongst the μείζονα (1 Corinthians 12:31) andrich in edification (1 Corinthians 14:6), these c
Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)
§ 43. THE QUALITIES OF CHRISTIAN LOVE. The previous vv. havejustified the καθʼ ὑπερβολὴν of 1 Corinthians 12:31.The loftiest human faculties of man are seen to be frustrate withoutlove; by its aid...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary
THE ONE ESSENTIAL FOR ALL1 Corinthians 13:1With what wonder his amanuensis must have looked up, as the Apostlebroke into this exquisite sonnet on love! His radiant spirit hadcaught a glimpse of t...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible
The apostle dealt with love, its values (verses 1Co 13:1-3), itsvirtues (verses 1Co 13:4-7), and its victory (verses 1Co 13:8-13). Thevalues of love are discovered in the fact that, apart from it, a...
Gary Hampton Commentaries
The Temporary Nature of Spiritual GiftsSpiritual gifts were needed to aid in the growth and development ofthe early church. The need for those gifts came to an end when God'swill was completely rev...
Geneva Study Bible Commentary
(4) For we know in (h) part, and we prophesy in part.(4) The reason: because we are now in the state that we have need tolearn daily, and therefore we have need of those helps, that is, ofthe gift...
Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians
The reading γάρ, _for_, is evidently preferable to the δέ,_then_, of the Byz. The apostle wishes to explain why this doing awayshall take place. Prophecy lifts on each occasion only a corner of the...
Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians
II. THE WAY PAR EXCELLENCE. CHAP. 13.This chapter has been called a hymn. In tone indeed it is trulylyrical, especially in the first verses. Charity is poeticallypersonified. In this respect the pa...
Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians
“Charity never faileth. As to prophecies, they shall be done away;as to tongues, they shall cease; as to knowledges, they shall be doneaway. 9. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 10. But...
Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians 13:8-13 .The absolute duration of charity is developed in these last verses:first, in opposition to gifts, then even in contrast to the other twofundamental virtues, faith and hope....
Hawker's Poor man's commentary
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shallfail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there beknowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we proph...
Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistlegive us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostlespeaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
John Calvin's Bible Commentary
He now proves that _prophecy, _and other gifts of that nature, aredone away, (798) because they are conferred upon us to help ourinfirmity. Now our imperfection will one day have an end. Hence theu...
John Darby's Synopsis
Nevertheless there was something more excellent than all gifts. Theywere the manifestations of the power of God and of the mysteries ofHis wisdom; love, that of His nature itself.They might speak w...
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible
FOR WE KNOW IN PART,.... Not that the Scriptures, the rule and measureof knowledge, and from whence spiritual knowledge is derived, areimperfect; so that there is need of unwritten traditions, and o...
John Trapp Complete Commentary
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.Ver. 9. _We prophesy in part_] We therefore know but imperfectly,because we are taught but imperfectly. My greatest knowledge, saidChytraeus, is to kno...
Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures
1 Cor. 13:8-12. "Charity never faileth: but whether there beprophecies, they shall fail; - For we know in part, and we prophesy inpart. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
_Love never faileth_ It accompanies us to, prepares us for, and adornsus in eternity; nay, it is the very felicity of heaven. In theserespects it materially differs from, and has an apparent advanta...
Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)
WE KNOW IN PART; that is, in our present state.WE PROPHESY IN PART; we are not capable of either receiving orcommunicating truth by prophecy, except in a partial and imperfectway....
Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible
The eternal duration of love:...
Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible
FOR WE KNOW IN PART, AND WE PROPHESY IN PART....
Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible
Verses 1 Timothy 3 of this chapter show the necessity of love; verses4 to 7 the characteristics of love; and verses 8 to 13 its permanence.And in the first section, verse I deals with what I speak;...
Mark Dunagan Commentaries
FOR WE KNOW IN PART, AND WE PROPHESY IN PART;'For' -explains the reason why these spiritual gifts will cease. Allthe spiritual gifts had some relationship to the revelation of theWord of God. Gift...
Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible
8-13 Charity is much to be preferred to the gifts on which theCorinthians prided themselves. From its longer continuance. It is agrace, lasting as eternity. The present state is a state of childhoo...
Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible
FOR WE KNOW IN PART; it was truly said, as to things human, that thegreatest part of those things that we know, is the least part of thosethings which we are ignorant of. A great measure of Divine t...
McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;...
NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IIand we, while upon the earth, as Paul also declares, "know in part,and prophesy in part."[244]Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IIBut if any lover of strife contra...
Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes
1 Corinthians 13:9 For G1063 know G1097 (G5719) in G1537 part G3313and G2532 prophesy G4395 (G5719) in
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible
LOVE MUST LIE AT THE ROOT OF ALL WE DO ESPECIALLY OUR MINISTRY TO THECHURCH (13:1-13).Paul now deals with what must lie behind the use of spiritual gifts,if they are to be truly spiritual. And in s...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible
'Love never fails. But whether there be prophecies, they shall be doneaway; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there beknowledge, it shall be done away. For we know in part, and we...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible
LOVE WILL INDEED OUTLIVE ALL SPIRITUAL GIFTS, AND IS EVEN GREATER THANFAITH AND HOPE (13:8B-13).For then we are brought back to how such love compares with thesubject in hand. Prophecies, tongues...
Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)
1 Corinthians 13:9. FOR WE KNOW IN PART even in respect of thesupernatural gift of knowledge AND WE PROPHESY IN PART in necessarilybroken, fragmentary utterances, giving at best but imperfect views...
Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament
IN PART(εκ μερους). See on 1 Corinthians 12:27. As opposed to thewhole....
Sermon Bible Commentary
1 Corinthians 13:9I. "We know in part." This limitation is imposed upon us briefly. Ofall that is, of all that ever we, with our present faculties, feelmust be, we can know but a small fraction. Ou...
Spurgeon's Bible Commentary
1 Corinthians 13:1. _Though I speak with the tongues of men and ofangels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or atinkling cymbal._If there be no love to God, and no love to man,...
Summarized Bible Commentary
CONTENTS: Love, the supreme gift of the Spirit, and its governingpower over other gifts.CHARACTERS: Paul.CONCLUSION: Love alone can give value to any service rendered inChrist's name, and it is...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
The apostle having spoken of the adornings of the church, which is thebody of Christ, proceeds now to treat of her internal glory; and thatglory is charity, for without this, all other endowments ar...
The Bible Study New Testament
ARE ONLY PARTIAL. Our gifts are limited by the limitations placed onthem. Compare 1 Peter 1:10-11 for an example of this.10. BUT WHEN WHAT IS PERFECT COMES. Most scholars believe _theperfect_ will...
The Biblical Illustrator
_Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have notcharity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal._CHARITYEach of the apostles had a predominant feature of character....
The Biblical Illustrator
CHARITY NEVER FAILETH;… PROPHECIES SHALL FAIL;… TONGUES SHALLCEASE;… KNOWLEDGE SHALL VANISH AWAY.CHARITY NEVER FAILETHI. As the living principle in the heart of believers. In its essenceit is the...
The Biblical Illustrator
_We know in part, and we prophesy in part._WE KNOW IN PARTI. The imperfection of our knowledge.1. We know but little.2. That little is mixed with much error.3. Includes much that is useless....
The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide
CHAPTER 13SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTERi. He points out that of all gifts and graces, charity is the first,and that without charity no gift or virtue is of any use.II. He enumerates (ver. 4) the sixt...
The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide
_For we know in part and we prophesy in part, i.e._, imperfectly.Ephrem turns it. "We know but little of much;" for the Apostle opposeswhat is little and imperfect, what we know partly by reason, pa...
The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary
_CRITICAL NOTES_1. THESE NEED BE VERY FEW; the language of the chapter is of thesimplest, the thought inexhaustibly full.2. Note, Paul, not John, writes this chapter on LOVE.3. The “I” is not s...
The Pulpit Commentaries
EXPOSITION1 CORINTHIANS 13:1_The supremely excellent way of Christian love. _This chapter has beenin all ages the object of the special admiration of the Church. Wouldthat it had received in all...
Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith
Let's turn to the thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians.The thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians actually begins with chapter12. Paul was talking in chapter 12 about the various gifts of the HolySpiri...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1 Corinthians 13:12; 1 Corinthians 2:9; 1 Corinthians 8:2; 1 John 3:2;...
Wells of Living Water Commentary
THE MORE EXCELLENT WAY1 Corinthians 13:1INTRODUCTORY WORDS1. The love of God. The great love of God verse is John 3:16. Anothergreat love verse is Romans 5:8. The whole Bible is, however, one st...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part — The wisest of menhave here but short, narrow, imperfect conceptions, even of the thingsround about them, and much more of the deep things of God. And e...
