1 Corinthians 13:12

But now as in a mirror we see in a figure; but then- the face before the face. Now I know a little of much; but then shall I know even as I am known.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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, as a child I spake, and as a child I thought, and as a child I reasoned; but when I had become a man I abolished these things of childhood.

13For these are the three that remain, faith and hope and love; but the greatest of these is love.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:8Blessed they who are pure in their hearts, for they shall see Aloha.

John 10:15As my Father knoweth me (and) I know my Father, and my life I lay down for the flock.

1 Corinthians 8:3but if a man love Aloha, this (one) is acknowledged of him.

2 Corinthians 3:18But we all with disclosed faces behold the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, and into the resemblance of it are changed from brightness to brightness, 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 →

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