1 Corinthians 13:12

And now we see, as by a mirror, in similitude; but then face to face: now I know partially; but then shall I know, just as I am known.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 talked as a child, and I reasoned as a child, and I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I laid aside the things of childhood.

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

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Cross References

Matthew 5:8Blessed are the clean in heart: for they shall behold God!

John 10:15As my Father knoweth me, so know I my Father; and I expose my life for the flock.

1 Corinthians 8:3But if any one loveth God, that man is known of him.

2 Corinthians 3:18And we all, with uncovered faces, behold as in a mirror the glory of the Lord; and are 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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