1 Corinthians 13:10
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed.
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.
11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.
12 Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.
- KJV
- But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
- WEB
- but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.
- ASV
- but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.
- DARBY
- but when that which is perfect has come, that which is in part shall be done away.
- BLB
- but when the perfect should come, the partial will be made null.
- ÅB
- men når det fullkomne kommer, da skal det som er stykkevis, få ende.
- OTB
- Men når det fullkomne kommer, skal det som er stykkevis, forsvinne.
- B1930
- men når det fullkomne kommer, da skal det som er stykkevis, få ende.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Corinthians 13:12
Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
Read in contextIsaiah 60:19–20
No longer will the sun be your light by day, nor the brightness of the moon shine on your night; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your splendor.
Read in context2 Corinthians 5:7–8
For we walk by faith, not by sight.
Read in contextIsaiah 24:23
The moon will be confounded and the sun will be ashamed; for the LORD of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before His elders with great glory.
Read in contextRevelation 22:4–5
They will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads.
Read in contextRevelation 21:22–23
But I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
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