1 Corinthians 13:12
For we see now through a dim window obscurely, but then face to face; now I know partially, but then I shall know according as I also have been known.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
13And now abide faith, hope, love; these three things; and the greater of these [is] love.
Cross References
Exodus 33:11And Jehovah spoke with Moses face to face, as a man speaks with his friend. And he returned to the camp; but his attendant, Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, departed not from within the tent.
Judges 14:12And Samson said to them, Let me now propound a riddle to you; if ye clearly explain it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find [it] out, then I will give you thirty shirts, and thirty changes of garments.
Matthew 5:8Blessed the pure in heart, for *they* shall see God.
John 10:15as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.
1 Corinthians 8:3But if any one love God, *he* is known of him):
2 Corinthians 3:18But *we* all, looking on the glory of the Lord, with unveiled face, are transformed according to the same image from glory to glory, even as by [the] Lord [the] Spirit.
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 →