9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
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That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; …
May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; …
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
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.
And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
Commentary
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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