1 Corinthians 13:12
We see now through a glass in a dark manner; but then face to face. Now I know I part; but then I shall know even as I am known.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
13And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity.
Cross References
Exodus 33:11And the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man is wont to speak to his friend. And when he returned into the camp, his servant Josue the son of Nun, a young man, departed not from the tabernacle.
Judges 14:12And Samson said to them: I will propose to you a riddle, which if you declare unto me within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty shirts, and as many coats:
Matthew 5:8Blessed are the clean of heart: for they shall see God.
John 10:15As the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father: and I lay down my life for my sheep.
1 Corinthians 8:3But if any any love God, the same is known by him.
2 Corinthians 3:18But we all beholding the glory of the Lord with open face, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.
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 →