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1 Corinthians 13:12

For nowe we see through a glasse darkely: but then shall wee see face to face. Nowe I know in part: but then shall I know euen as I am knowen.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 childe, I spake as a childe, I vnderstoode as a childe, I thought as a childe: but when I became a man, I put away childish thinges.

13And nowe abideth faith, hope and loue, euen these three: but the chiefest of these is loue.

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Cross References

Exodus 33:11And the Lord spake vnto Moses, face to face, as a man speaketh vnto his friende. After he turned againe into the hoste, but his seruant Ioshua the sonne of Nun a yong man, departed not out of the Tabernacle.

Judges 14:12Then Samson sayd vnto them, I will nowe put forth a riddle vnto you: and if you can declare it me within seuen dayes of the feast, and finde it out, I will giue you thirty sheetes, and thirtie change of garments.

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

John 10:15As the Father knoweth me, so know I the Father: and I lay downe my life for my sheepe.

1 Corinthians 8:3But if any man loue God, the same is knowen of him.

2 Corinthians 3:18But we al behold as in a mirrour the glory of the Lord with open face, and are changed into the same image, from glorie to glorie, 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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