1 Corinthians 13 Study Notes
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13:7 Love endures in this age with a sure expectation of better things to come in the next.
13:8-13 Many aspects of church life will end at the end of this current age, but love never ends. This permanence signals love’s priority within the church.
13:10 The perfect refers to the next age, the eternal age when Messiah reigns.
13:11 Paul uses the analogy of infancy versus adulthood to explain the contrast between our present understanding and the understanding we will have in the next age.
13:12 Believers are granted to know truth in this age but only a reflection as in a mirror. Our imprecise perception of Christ will be made complete in eternity, where we will know him face to face.
13:13 Of faith, hope, and love, love is the greatest because it continues into the next age. Both faith and hope will be fulfilled in eternity, and so will not remain. This statement concludes a semantic bracket that began in v. 8—“Love never ends.”