1 Corinthians 13:12 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹² For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood.

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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 name of the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved.”

Job 19:26

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

Job 36:26

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

Exodus 33:11

Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tent.

Ezekiel 17:2

“Son of man, propound a riddle, and speak an allegory to the house of Israel;

Numbers 12:8

With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in dark speech; and he beholds the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

Matthew 18:10

“See that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I tell you that in heaven their angels always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 5:8

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

John 10:15

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 that is 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 a man, I gave up childish ways.

1 Corinthians 8:3

But if one loves God, one is known by him.

2 Corinthians 3:18

And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being changed into his likeness from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord who is 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 am already perfect; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.

James 1:23

For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who observes his natural face in a mirror;

1 John 3:2

Beloved, we are God's children now; it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

Revelation 22:4

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