1 Corinthians 13:8

Love, that bears, also out-wears everything : “Love never faileth”. That πίπτει denotes “falling” in the sense of cessation, dropping out of existence (cf. 1 Corinthians 10:8; Luke 16:17), not moral failure (as in 1 Corinthians 10:12, etc.), is manifest from the parl, clauses and from 1 Corinthians 13:13. The charisms of chh. 12. and 14. are bestowed on the way and serve the way-faring Church, they cease each of them at a determined point; but the Way of Love leads indefinitely beyond them; οὐ διασφάλλεται, ἀλλʼ ἀεὶ μένει βεβαία καὶ ἀκίνητος (Thd [1992]). “Prophesyings, tongues, and knowledge” faculties inspired, ecstatic, intellectual are the three typical forms of Christian expression. The abolition of Prophecies and Knowledge is explained in 1 Corinthians 13:9 ff. as the superseding of the partial by the perfect; they “will be done away” by a completer realisation of the objects they seek, viz., by intuition into the now hidden things of God and of man (1 Corinthians 14:24 f.), and by adequate comprehension of the things revealed (see note on 1 Corinthians 13:12). Of the Tongues it is simply said that “they will stop ” (παύσονται), having like other miracles a temporary significance (cf. 1 Corinthians 14:22); not giving place to any higher development of the like kind, they lapse and terminate (desinent, Bg [1993]).

[1992] Theodoret, Greek Commentator.

[1993] Bengel's Gnomon Novi Testamenti.