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- 1 Corinthians
- Chapter 13
- Verse 13
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
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Barnes' Notes
And now abideth - “Remains” (μένει menei). The word means properly to remain, continue, abide; and is applied to persons remaining in a place, in a state or condition, in contradistinction from…
Adam Clarke
And now [in this present life] abideth faith, hope, charity - These three supply the place of that direct vision which no human embodied spirit can have; these abide or remain for the present state.…
Here the apostle goes on to commend charity, and show how much it is preferable to the gifts on which the Corinthians were so apt to pride themselves, to the utter neglect, and almost extinction, of…
Cambridge Bible
And now abideth faith, hope, charity Allthese will remain in the life to come. Faith, the vision of the unseen (Heb 11:1), with its consequent trust in God; hope, which even in fruition remains as the…
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