1 Corinthians 13:12

World English Bible (2000)

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

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  • 2 Cor 3:18 : 18 But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
  • 1 John 3:2 : 2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.
  • 1 Cor 13:9-9 : 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; 10 but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.
  • Phil 3:12 : 12 Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
  • Jas 1:23 : 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;
  • Matt 5:8 : 8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
  • Num 12:8 : 8 With him I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see Yahweh's form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?"
  • 2 Cor 5:7 : 7 for we walk by faith, not by sight.
  • 1 Cor 8:3 : 3 But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.
  • Gen 32:30 : 30 Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, he said, "I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."
  • Exod 33:11 : 11 Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn't depart out of the Tent.
  • Matt 18:10 : 10 See that you don't despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
  • John 10:15 : 15 even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.
  • Rom 8:18 : 18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.
  • Rev 22:4 : 4 They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.

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