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And now there remain: faith [abiding trust in God and His promises], hope [confident expectation of eternal salvation], love [unselfish love for others growing out of God’s love for me], these three [the choicest graces]; but the greatest of these is love.
- 13 Catholic Bible
And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three:...
- 13 KJV
But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the...
- 13 NIV
But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the...
- Parallel Commentaries
(13) And now abideth . . . —Better, Thus there abide. . .The...
- 13 NASB
But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the...
- Additional Translations
But now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the...
- 13 Catholic Bible
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
And so faith, hope, love abide [faith—conviction and belief respecting man’s relation to God and divine things; hope—joyful and confident expectation of eternal salvation; love—true affection for God and man, growing out of God’s love for and in us], these three; but the greatest of these is love.
13 But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love. 13 But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
It will abide, in a sense, even after our faith has become sight and our hope in eternity has been fully realized. Paul's bottom line in this chapter is that, of course, faith and hope are far more important than spiritual gifts and love is greater even than faith and hope.
12 kwi 2024 · Faith, hope, and love are gifts in the present age, and they will still be gifts in the age to come. The NLT translates the promise this way: “Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love.”
13 lip 2023 · The Importance of Faith, Hope, and Love. But now abideth faith, hope, love. These three shall survive. They are eternal. They continue to exist in the church, and shall not fail in its glorified state.
