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1 Corinthians 13:9

For our knowing is imperfect, and our prophesying is imperfect;

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

8Love never fails; but though there are prophecies, they will fail; though there are tongues, they will cease; though there is knowledge, it will be superseded.

10but when the perfect is come, then the perfect will be done away.

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Cross References

Romans 11:34Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counsellor?

1 Corinthians 8:2If a man thinks that he already has knowledge, he does not yet truly know as he ought to know;

Ephesians 3:8To me, who am less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, that I should proclaim among the Gentiles the gospel of the unsearchable riches of 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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