1 Corinthians 13:9

Plain English Version

You see, now we only know a little bit, and the special messages that we get from God only tell us a little bit.

Cross References

Psalm 40:5

God, my God, you have done lots of powerful things for us. And you have lots and lots of good plans for us. Nobody is like you. You do so many great things that I can’t say them all. If I try to say them all, I’ll talk for ever and never stop talking.

Matthew 11:27

Then Jesus told the people, “God, my father, gave me everything, so I can teach people all about him. You see, I am God’s son, and my father knows me properly. Nobody else knows me properly. And I know my father properly. I pick some people, and I show them what my father is like, but nobody else knows God properly.”

1 Corinthians 13:10

Right now we only have a little bit of what God wants to give to us. But the time will come when he will let us understand everything properly. Then we will not worry about the little bits any more.

1 Corinthians 13:12

This is what that story means. Now we only understand a little bit. It is like we are looking at things in a dark mirror now. But the time will come when everything will be clear to us, like we are looking straight at them, not in a mirror. Right now we only know a little bit, but at that time we will know everything properly, just like God knows us properly.

1 Corinthians 2:9

But, you know, God says this in his book, “God got good things ready for the people that love him. Those things are better than anything anybody else can ever think up. Nobody ever saw or heard anything as good as the things that God got ready for us.”

1 Corinthians 8:2

So if you reckon you know all about everything, you don’t really know much at all. You still have to learn a lot more.

Ephesians 3:8

I’m not important. All of God’s people are more important than me. But God was good to me, and he gave me this special job. He sent me to tell the people that are not Jews about the really great things that Jesus Christ can give them. These things are so great that nobody can understand them properly.