1 Corinthians 13:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For now we see through a glass, darkly;f but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. ”

• 1 Corinthians 13:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  For now we see through a glass - Paul here makes use of another illustration to show the imperfection of our knowledge here. Compared with what it will be in the future world, it is like the impe...

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• 1 Corinthians 13:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (6) For (i) 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. (6) The applying of the similitude of our childhood to this...

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• 1 Corinthians 13:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  1 Corinthians 13. All Gifts and Sacrifices are Worthless without Love, which is Supreme and Incomparable. The chapter falls into three divisions: ( a) superlative gifts and costliest surrenders ar...

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• 1 Corinthians 13:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  see . App-133. through . App-104. 1 Corinthians 13:1 . glass . mirror. Greek. esoptron. Only here and James 1:23 . darkly . Literally in (Greek. en) . riddle. Greek. ainigma. Only here...

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• 1 Corinthians 13:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  12. We now see through a glass Here we have the application of the similitude. “The measure of knowledge, that we now have, is suitable to imperfection and childhood, as it were; for we do n...

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• 1 Corinthians 13:12 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1987 THE SAINTS’ VIEWS IN HEAVEN 1 Corinthians 13:9-12 . We know in part, and we prophecy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done awa...

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• 1 Corinthians 13:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  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. Now we see through a glass, darkly - Δι' εσοπτρου εν αινιγματι. Of th...

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• 1 Corinthians 13:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  For now we see through a glass darkly— For now we see in an ambiguous manner, by means of a mirror; δι εσοπτρου. The LXX. use this word for the women's looking-glasses, or mirrors of metal, out o...

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• 1 Corinthians 13:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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. Now, х arti ( G737 )] - in our present state. See - a...

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• 1 Corinthians 13:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  (e) Spiritual Gifts (ii) The most excellent Gift of Charity In this chapter we enter into the purest atmosphere and breathe the most fragrant odours. Passing from the previous Chapter s with the...

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• 1 Corinthians 13:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  For now — i.e., in this earthly life, the “for” connecting the previous statement with that which it illustrates. Through a glass, darkly. — Better, through a mirror in a dark saying. The il...

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• 1 Corinthians 13:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 19 NO GIFT LIKE LOVE THIS is one of the passages of Scripture which an expositor scruples to touch. Some of the bloom and delicacy of surface passes from the flower in the very handling w...

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• 1 Corinthians 13:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the One Essential for All 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 With what wonder his amanuensis must have looked up, as the Apostle broke into this exquisite sonnet on love! His radiant spirit had caught a gli...

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• 1 Corinthians 13:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The apostle dealt with love, its values (verses 1Co 13:1-3), its virtues (verses 1Co 13:4-7), and its victory (verses 1Co 13:8-13). The values of love are discovered in the fact that, apart from it,...

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• 1 Corinthians 13:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prop...

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• 1 Corinthians 13:12 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  PRESENT AND FUTURE VISION ‘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.’ 1 Corinthians 13:12 This fragmen...

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• 1 Corinthians 13:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For now we see through a glass ,.... In this present life, they that are enlightened by the Spirit of God, see God, the perfections and glory of his nature, the riches of his grace and goodness, as...

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• 1 Corinthians 13:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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. Ver. 12. In a glass, &c. ] See Numbers 12:8 . But then f...

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• 1 Corinthians 13:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  When I was a child , &c. The difference between our present and future conceptions of spiritual things may be illustrated by the knowledge of a child compared to that of a man. For in our presen...

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• 1 Corinthians 13:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  Verses 1 Timothy 3 of this chapter show the necessity of love; verses 4 to 7 the characteristics of love; and verses 8 to 13 its permanence. And in the first section, verse I deals with what I spe...

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• 1 Corinthians 13:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Charity Commended. A. D.  57.       8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, the...

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• 1 Corinthians 13:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The apostle pursues his former theme, comparing the imperfect state of believers, as to knowledge in this life, with what shall be in the life that is to come. In this life it is as in a looking glas...

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• 1 Corinthians 13:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Love Must Lie At The Root Of All We Do Especially Our Ministry To The Church (13:1-13). Paul now deals with what must lie behind the use of spiritual gifts, if they are to be truly spiritual. And...

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• 1 Corinthians 13:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES 1. These need be very few ; the language of the chapter is of the simplest, the thought inexhaustibly full. 2. Note, Paul, not John, writes this chapter on Love . 3. The “I” i...

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• 1 Corinthians 13:12 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  1 Corinthians 13:12 The First Five Minutes after Death. I. At our entrance on another state of existence we shall know what it is to exist under entirely new conditions. What will it be to find o...

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• 1 Corinthians 13:12 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  1 Corinthians 13:1 . Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. If there be no love to God, and no love to m...

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• 1 Corinthians 13:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The apostle having spoken of the adornings of the church, which is the body of Christ, proceeds now to treat of her internal glory; and that glory is charity, for without this, all other endowments a...

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• 1 Corinthians 13:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. Charity Each of the apostles had a predominant feature of charac...

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• 1 Corinthians 13:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 13:1-46 The supremely excellent way of Christian love. This chapter has been in all ages the object of the special admiration of the Church. Would that it had rec...

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• 1 Corinthians 13:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The eternal duration of love:

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• 1 Corinthians 13:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 13:10 ; 1 Corinthians 13:9 ; 1 John 3:2 ; 2 Corinthians 3:18 ; 2 Corinthians 5:7 ; Exodus 33:11 ; Ezekiel 17:2 ; James 1:23 ; John 10:15 ; Judges 14:12-19 ; Matthew 18:10 ;...

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• 1 Corinthians 13:12 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The More Excellent Way 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The love of God. The great love of God verse is John 3:16 . Another great love verse is Romans 5:8 . The whole Bible is, ho...

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• 1 Corinthians 13:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Now we see — Even the things that surround us. But by means of a glass — Or mirror, which reflects only their imperfect forms, in a dim, faint, obscure manner; so that our thoughts about them are p...

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