1 Corinthians 13:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Take us according to our state in this life, we have, and shall have, the exercise of three graces: faith, to evidence unto us those things which we do not see, either by the eye of sense or reason; hope, by which we wait for the receiving of them; and love, by which we delight ourselves in God, and show obedience to the will of God. But of all these, love is the greatest, either in respect of its use and profitableness unto men, or in respect of its duration and abiding (which last the apostle seemeth chiefly to intend). Faith shall cease when we come to the vision of God; and hope, when we come to the fruition of God in glory; love also will cease, as to some acts, but never as to a pleasure and a delighting in God; that will be to eternity.

1 Corinthians 13:13

13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.