1 Corinthians 13:9

For our knowledge is incomplete, and our preaching is incomplete,

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

8Love never fails. But, whether it be the gift of preaching, it will end; whether it be the gift of ‘tongues,’ it will cease; whether it be knowledge, it, too, will vanish.

10but, when the perfect has come, that which is incomplete will end.

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Cross References

Psalms 40:5With us you have wrought in rich measure, O Lord our God, your marvels and purposes for us – none may compare with you – were I to declare or to tell them, past counting are they.

Romans 11:34ho has ever comprehended the mind of the Lord? Who has ever become his counsellor?

1 Corinthians 8:2If someone thinks that they know anything, they have not yet reached that knowledge which they ought to have reached.

Ephesians 3:8Yes, to me, who am less than the least of all Christ’s people, was this charge entrusted! – to tell the Gentiles the good news of the boundless wealth to be found in the 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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