1 Corinthians 13:8-12

New Living Translation

⁸ Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages^[a] and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever! ⁹ Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture! ¹⁰ But when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will become useless.

¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. ¹² Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.^[b] All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.