19 saying, “Give to me also this power, so that whomever I place my[a] hands on may receive the Holy Spirit!”

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  1. Acts 8:19 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun

19 and said, “Give me also this ability so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”

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19 “Let me have this power, too,” he exclaimed, “so that when I lay my hands on people, they will receive the Holy Spirit!”

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Love never ends. But if there are prophecies, they will pass away. If there are tongues, they will cease. If there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but whenever the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.

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Love never fails. But where there are prophecies,(A) they will cease; where there are tongues,(B) they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part(C) and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes,(D) what is in part disappears.

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Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages[a] and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever! Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture! 10 But when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will become useless.

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  1. 13:8 Or in tongues.