1 Corinthians 13:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² 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

¹² 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)

¹² 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

¹² 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

¹² 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

¹² 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

So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, yet my life is preserved.”

Job 19:26

and after my skin has been destroyed, then in my flesh I shall see God,

Job 36:26

Surely God is great, and we do not know him; the number of his years is unsearchable.

Exodus 33:11

Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. Then he would return to the camp, but his young assistant, Joshua son of Nun, would not leave the tent.

Ezekiel 17:2

O mortal, propound a riddle and speak an allegory to the house of Israel.

Numbers 12:8

With him I speak face to face—clearly, not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the Lord. “Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

Matthew 18:10

“Take care that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I tell you, in heaven their angels continually see the face of my Father in heaven.

Matthew 5:8

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

John 10:15

just as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for the sheep.

Romans 8:18

I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us.

1 Corinthians 13:11

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways.

1 Corinthians 8:3

but anyone who loves God is known by him.

2 Corinthians 3:18

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.

2 Corinthians 5:7

for we walk by faith, not by sight.

Philippians 3:12

Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal, but I press on to lay hold of that for which Christ has laid hold of me.

James 1:23

For if any are hearers of the word and not doers, they are like those who look at themselves in a mirror;

1 John 3:2

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

Revelation 22:4

they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.