1 Corinthians 13:12

New International Reader's Version

Now we see only a dim likeness of things. It is as if we were seeing them in a foggy mirror. But someday we will see clearly. We will see face to face. What I know now is not complete. But someday I will know completely, just as God knows me completely.

Cross References

Genesis 32:30

So Jacob named the place Peniel. He said, “I saw God face to face. But I’m still alive!”

Job 19:26

Though my skin will be destroyed, in my body I’ll see God.

Job 36:26

How great God is! We’ll never completely understand him. We’ll never find out how long he has lived.

Exodus 33:11

The Lord would speak to Moses face to face like one would speak to a friend. Then Moses would return to the camp. But Joshua, his young helper, didn’t leave the tent. Joshua was the son of Nun.

Ezekiel 17:2

“Son of man, tell the people of Israel a story about their kings. Let them know what will happen to them.

Numbers 12:8

With Moses I speak face to face. I speak with him clearly. I do not speak in riddles. I let him see something of what I look like. So why were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

Matthew 18:10

“See that you don’t look down on one of these little ones. Here is what I tell you. Their angels in heaven are always with my Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 5:8

Blessed are those whose hearts are pure. They will see God.

John 10:15

They know me just as the Father knows me and I know the Father. And I give my life for the sheep.

Romans 8:18

What we are suffering now is nothing compared with our future glory.

1 Corinthians 13:11

When I was a child, I talked like a child. I thought like a child. I had the understanding of a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

1 Corinthians 8:3

But whoever loves God is known by God.

2 Corinthians 3:18

None of our faces are covered with a veil. All of us can see the Lord’s glory and think deeply about it. So we are being changed to become more like him so that we have more and more glory. And this glory comes from the Lord, who is the Holy Spirit.

2 Corinthians 5:7

We live by believing, not by seeing.

Philippians 3:12

I have not yet received all these things. I have not yet reached my goal. Christ Jesus took hold of me so that I could reach that goal. So I keep pushing myself forward to reach it.

James 1:23

Suppose someone listens to the word but doesn’t do what it says. Then they are like a person who looks at their face in a mirror.

1 John 3:2

Dear friends, now we are children of God. He still hasn’t let us know what we will be. But we know that when Christ appears, we will be like him. That’s because we will see him as he really is.

Revelation 22:4

They will see his face. His name will be on their foreheads.