1 Corinthians 13:9-12
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
9 For our knowledge is fragmentary (incomplete and imperfect), and our prophecy (our teaching) is fragmentary (incomplete and imperfect).
10 But when the complete and perfect (total) comes, the incomplete and imperfect will vanish away (become antiquated, void, and superseded).
11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; now that I have become a man, I am done with childish ways and have put them aside.
12 For now we are looking in a mirror that gives only a dim (blurred) reflection [of reality as [a]in a riddle or enigma], but then [when perfection comes] we shall see in reality and face to face! Now I know in part (imperfectly), but then I shall know and understand [b]fully and clearly, even in the same manner as I have been [c]fully and clearly known and understood [[d]by God].
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- 1 Corinthians 13:12 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
- 1 Corinthians 13:12 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
- 1 Corinthians 13:12 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
- 1 Corinthians 13:12 Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Holy Bible.
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