►►► LOVE AND GIFTS OF SPIRIT

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1 Corinthians 13:8-10 reads:

                 "Love never fails.

       But where there are prophecies,
                   they will cease;
            where there are tongues,
                 they will be stilled;
            where there is knowledge,
                   it will pass away.

For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
        but when completeness comes,
          what is in part disappears.."

This scripture seems to indicate that a time will come when some of the gifts of the Spirit will cease.

Previously, in 1 Corinthians 12:8-10 the gifts of the Spirit are defined. It reads:

"To some people the Spirit gives a message of wisdom. To others the same Spirit gives a message of knowledge. To others the same Spirit gives faith. To others that one Spirit gives gifts of healing. To others he gives the power to do miracles. To others he gives the ability to prophesy. To others he gives the ability to tell the spirits apart. To others he gives the ability to speak in different kinds of languages they had not known before. And to still others he gives the ability to explain what was said in those languages."

It seems that 'love' will be an identifying factor of a Christian.
Do you think we are already fulfilling 1 Corinthians 13:8-10?
What do you think of some of the gifts of spirit being done away with?