1 Corinthians 13:9
For our knowledge is incomplete, and our preaching is incomplete,
Twentieth Century New Testament
In The King James Version
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
In Context
10but, when the Perfect has come, that which is incomplete will be done with.
Cross References
Romans 11:34‘Who has ever comprehended the mind of the Lord? Who has ever become his counsellor?
1 Corinthians 8:2If a man thinks that he knows anything, he has not yet reached that knowledge which he ought to have reached.
Ephesians 3:8Yes, to me, who am less than the least of all Christ’s People, was this charge entrusted! — to tell the Gentiles the Good News of the boundless wealth to be found in the 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 →