1 Corinthians 13:12

For the present we see things as if in a mirror, and are puzzled; but then we shall see them face to face. For the present the knowledge I gain is imperfect; but then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

Weymouth NT (1912)

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 like a child, felt like a child, reasoned like a child: when I became a man, I put from me childish ways.

13And so there remain Faith, Hope, Love--these three; and of these the greatest 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 and I know the Father; and I am laying down my life for the sheep.

1 Corinthians 8:3but if any one loves God, that man is known by God.

2 Corinthians 3:18And all of us, with unveiled faces, reflecting like bright mirrors the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same likeness, from one degree of radiant holiness to another, even as derived from 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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