Jacob then named the place Peniel, ‘For I have seen God face to face,’ he said, ‘yet my life has been spared.’
1 Corinthians 13:12 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, as I am fully known. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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. |
Jacob then named the place Peniel, ‘For I have seen God face to face,’ he said, ‘yet my life has been spared.’
Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet I will see God in my flesh.
Yes, God is exalted beyond our knowledge; the number of his years cannot be counted.
The Lord would speak with Moses face to face, just as a man speaks with his friend, then Moses would return to the camp. His assistant, the young man Joshua son of Nun, would not leave the inside of the tent.
‘Son of man, pose a riddle and speak a parable to the house of Israel.
I speak with him directly, openly, and not in riddles; he sees the form of the Lord. So why were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses? ’
‘See to it that you don’t despise one of these little ones, because I tell you that in heaven their angels continually view the face of my Father in heaven. ,
just as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is going to be revealed to us.
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 put aside childish things.
We all, with unveiled faces, are looking as in a mirror at , the glory of the Lord and are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory; this is from the Lord who is the Spirit.
Not that I have already reached the goal or am already perfect, but I make every effort to take hold of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like someone looking at his own face in a mirror.
Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when he appears, we will be like him because we will see him as he is.