1 Corinthians 13:12

For now we see as in a mirror, and are baffled, but then face to face; now I know in fragments, but then shall I understand even as I also have been understood.

Montgomery New Testament

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 like a child, felt like a child, thought like a child; now that I am become a man, I have done with childish things.

13Faith, Hope, Love endure - these three; but the greatest of these is Love.

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Cross References

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

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

1 Corinthians 8:3but if a man loves God, he is known by him.

2 Corinthians 3:18And we all, with unveiled faces, reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are ourselves continually being transformed into the same likeness, from glory to glory, 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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