Looking-Glass

A mirror in the Bible is a glass, usually polished metal, and it serves three different lessons. James compares a hearer who does not act on the word to a man who sees his face in a glass and promptly forgets what he looked like. Paul uses it for our limited sight now: “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face.” Elsewhere he says believers, “beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord,” are slowly changed. Read James 1:22-25 first, then 1 Corinthians 13:12.

4 verses

1 Corinthians

1 Corinthians 13:12

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.

2 Corinthians

2 Corinthians 3:18

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.

James

James 1:23

For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

James 1:24

For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

Based on Nave's Topical Bible by Orville J. Nave (1896). Public domain. KJV scripture text, public domain.