12For 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.
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Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. …
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-13)Here the apostle goes on to commend charity, and show how much it is preferable to the gifts on which the Corinthians were so apt to pride themselves, to the utter neglect, and almost extinction, of charity. This he makes out, I. From its longer continuance and duration: Charity never faileth . It is a permanent and perpetual grace, lasting as eternity; whereas the extraordinary gifts on which the…
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