⁸ Love never ends.^(A) But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. ⁹ For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰ but when the perfect comes, the partial will come to an end. ¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put aside childish things. ¹² For now we see only a reflection^[a] as in a mirror, but then face to face.^(B) Now I know in part, but then I will know fully,^(C) as I am fully known.^(D)

⁶ I am sure of this, that he who started a good work^(A) in you^[a] will carry it on to completion^(B) until the day of Christ Jesus.

² Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed.^(A) We know that when he appears,^[a] we will be like him^(B) because we will see him as he is.^(C)