1 Corinthians 13:12

For we see now in a mirror, obscurely; but then face to face. Now I know in part; but then I shall know fully, even as I also am fully known.

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

In The King James Version

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

In Context

11When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child; but now that I am become a man, I have done away the things of the child.

13And now remain faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:8Happy 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 loves God, the same is known by him.

2 Corinthians 3:18But we all, with unvailed face beholding in a mirror the glory of the Lord, 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 →

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