1 Corinthians 13:12 · KJV
“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. {darkly: Gr. in a riddle}”
— 1 Corinthians 13:12
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. {thought: or, reasoned} {put away: Gr. vanish away}
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these {is} charity.
1 Corinthians 13 — Context
But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. {done away: Gr. vanish away}
11When 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. {thought: or, reasoned} {put away: Gr. vanish away}
12For 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. {darkly: Gr. in a riddle}
13And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these {is} charity.
Cross References
1 John 3:2
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
2 Corinthians 3:18
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, {even} as by the Spirit of the Lord. {by the...: or, of the Lord the Spirit}
1 Corinthians 13:9-10
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
Philippians 3:12
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Revelation 22:4
And they shall see his face; and his name {shall be} in their foreheads.
2 Corinthians 5:7
(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
Matthew 5:8
Blessed {are} the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
James 1:23
For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: