¹² For now we see only a reflection, as in a mirror, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.^(A)

² Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when he^[a] is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him as he is.^(A)

¹⁸ And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit.^(A)

⁹ For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part, ¹⁰ but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end.

Pressing toward the Goal

¹² Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal,^[a] but I press on to lay hold of that for which Christ^[b] has laid hold of me.^(A)

⁷ for we walk by faith, not by sight.^(A)

²³ For if any are hearers of the word and not doers, they are like those who look at themselves^[a] in a mirror;^(A)

⁸ “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.^(A)

⁴ they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.^(A)

³ but anyone who loves God is known by him.^(A)