1 Corinthians 13:12

Conservative English Version

Now all we can see of God is like a cloudy picture in a mirror. Later we will see him face to face. We don't know everything, but then we will, just as God completely understands us.

Cross References

Genesis 32:30

Jacob said, "I have seen God face to face, and I am still alive." So he named the place Peniel.

Job 19:26

My flesh may be destroyed, yet from this body I will see God.

Job 36:26

how great God is-- God is more than we imagine; no one can count the years he has lived.

Exodus 33:11

(SEE 33:9)

Ezekiel 17:2

Ezekiel, son of man, tell the people of Israel the following story,

Numbers 12:8

He sees me face to face, and everything I say to him is perfectly clear. You have no right to criticize my servant Moses."

Matthew 18:10

Don't be cruel to any of these little ones! I promise you that their angels are always with my Father in heaven.

Matthew 5:8

God blesses those people whose hearts are pure. They will see him!

John 10:15

Just as the Father knows me, I know the Father, and I give up my life for my sheep.

Romans 8:18

I am sure that what we are suffering now cannot compare with the glory that will be shown to us.

1 Corinthians 13:11

When we were children, we thought and reasoned as children do. But when we grew up, we quit our childish ways.

1 Corinthians 8:3

But God has no doubts about who loves him.

2 Corinthians 3:18

So our faces are not covered. They show the bright glory of the Lord, as the Lord's Spirit makes us more and more like our glorious Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:7

But we live by faith, not by what we see.

Philippians 3:12

I have not yet reached my goal, and I am not perfect. But Christ has taken hold of me. So I keep on running and struggling to take hold of the prize.

James 1:23

If you hear the message and don't obey it, you are like people who stare at themselves in a mirror

1 John 3:2

My dear friends, we are already God's children, though what we will be hasn't yet been seen. But we do know that when Christ returns, we will be like him, because we will see him as he truly is.

Revelation 22:4

and will see him face to face. God's name will be written on the foreheads of the people.