1 Corinthians 13:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I have been known.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For now we are looking in a mirror that gives only a dim (blurred) reflection [of reality as 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 fully and clearly, even in the same manner as I have been fully and clearly known and understood [by God].

American Standard Version (1901)

For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known.

Common English Bible

Now we see a reflection in a mirror; then we will see face-to-face. Now I know partially, but then I will know completely in the same way that I have been completely known.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Now we see through a glass darkly. But then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know, even as I am known.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

We see now through a glass in a dark manner; but then face to face. Now I know in part; but then I shall know even as I am known.

1 Corinthians 13:12 Cross References

Genesis 32:30

And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, said he, I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

Job 19:26

And after my skin hath been thus destroyed, Yet from my flesh shall I see God:

Job 36:26

Behold, God is great, and we know him not; The number of his years is unsearchable.

Exodus 33:11

And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his minister Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the Tent.

Ezekiel 17:2

Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;

Numbers 12:8

with him will I speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not in dark speeches; and the form of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?

Matthew 18:10

See that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, that in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.

Matthew 5:8

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

John 10:15

even as the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.

Romans 8:18

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us-ward.

1 Corinthians 13:11

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.

1 Corinthians 8:3

but if any man loveth God, the same is known of him.

2 Corinthians 3:18

But we all, with unveiled face reflecting as a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 5:7

(for we walk by faith, not by sight);

Philippians 3:12

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect: but I press on, if so be that I may apprehend that for which also I was apprehended by Christ Jesus.

James 1:23

For if any one is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror:

1 John 3:2

Beloved, now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is.

Revelation 22:4

and they shall see his face; and his name shall be on their foreheads.