1 Corinthians 13:12

As yet we see, in a mirror, dimly, but then – face to face! As yet my knowledge is incomplete, but then I will know in full, as I have been fully known.

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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 talked as a child, I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child; now that I am a man, I have done with childish ways.

13Meanwhile faith, hope, and love endure – these three, but the greatest of these is love.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:8Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

John 10:15Just as the Father knows me and I know the Father – and I lay down my life for the sheep.

1 Corinthians 8:3On the other hand, if a person loves God, they are known by God.

2 Corinthians 3:18And all of us, with faces from which the veil is lifted, seeing, as if reflected in a mirror, the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into his likeness, from glory to glory, as it is given 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 →

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