1 Corinthians 13:9

For our knowledge is only in part, and the prophet's word gives only a part of what is true:

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

In Context

8Though the prophet's word may come to an end, tongues come to nothing, and knowledge have no more value, love has no end.

10But when that which is complete is come, then that which is in part will be no longer necessary.

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Cross References

Job 11:7Are you able to take God's measure, to make discovery of the limits of the Ruler of all?

Psalms 40:5\40:4\Happy is the man who has faith in the Lord, and does not give honour to the men of pride or to those who are turned away to deceit.

Proverbs 30:4Who has gone up to heaven and come down? who has taken the winds in his hands, prisoning the waters in his robe? by whom have all the ends of the earth been fixed? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you are able to say?

Romans 11:34Who has knowledge of the mind of the Lord? or who has taken part in his purposes?

1 Corinthians 8:2If anyone seems to himself to have knowledge, so far he has not the right sort of knowledge about anything;

Ephesians 3:8To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, was this grace given, so that I might make clear to the Gentiles the good news of the unending wealth of Christ:

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 13:9-13

Charity Commended. ( a. d. 57.) 8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. 11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see through a glass,… Read the whole commentary →

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