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1 Corinthians 13:9

For we know but partially; and we prophesy but partially.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

8Love will never cease. But prophesyings will end; and tongues will be silent; and knowledge will vanish.

10But when completeness shall come, then that which is partial will vanish away.

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Cross References

Romans 11:34For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been a counsellor to him?

1 Corinthians 8:2And if any one thinketh that he knoweth any thing he knoweth nothing yet, as he ought to know it.

Ephesians 3:8to me, who am the least of all the saints, hath this grace been given, that I should announce among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of the Messiah,

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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