| 1 Corinthians 13:9 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | For we know in part and we prophesy in part; (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | Our knowledge is incomplete and our ability to speak what God has revealed is incomplete.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. |
| ASV: | For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; |
| BBE: | For our knowledge is only in part, and the prophet's word gives only a part of what is true: |
| DBY: | For we know in part, and we prophesy in part: |
| ERV: | For we know in part, and we prophesy in part: |
| WEY: | For our knowledge is imperfect, and so is our prophesying; |
| WBS: | For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. |
| WEB: | For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; |
| YLT: | for in part we know, and in part we prophecy; |
| 1 Corinthians 13:9 Cross References |
| XREF: | 1 Corinthians 8:2 If anyone supposes that he knows anything, he has not yet known as he ought to know;
1 Corinthians 13:12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 13:9 {4} For we know in {h} part, and we prophesy in part.
(4) The reason: because we are now in the state that we have need to learn daily, and therefore we have need of those helps, that is, of the gift of tongues, and knowledge, and also of those that teach by them. But to what purpose serve they then, when we have obtained and gotten the full knowledge of God, which serve now but for those who are imperfect and go by degrees to perfection?
(h) We learn imperfectly. |
| PNT: | 13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. A reason why these gifts should pass away. Our knowledge is now only partial, and the prophecy only gives glimpses. These are all imperfect and fragmentary, and hence must give way to something better. |
| WES: | 13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part - The wisest of men have here but short, narrow, imperfect conceptions, even of the things round about them, and much more of the deep things of God. And even the prophecies which men deliver from God are far from taking in the whole of future events, or of that wisdom and knowledge of God which is treasured up in the scripture revelation. |
| MHC: | 13:8-13 Charity is much to be preferred to the gifts on which the Corinthians prided themselves. From its longer continuance. It is a grace, lasting as eternity. The present state is a state of childhood, the future that of manhood. Such is the difference between earth and heaven. What narrow views, what confused notions of things, have children when compared with grown men! Thus shall we think of our most valued gifts of this world, when we come to heaven. All things are dark and confused now, compared with what they will be hereafter. They can only be seen as by the reflection in a mirror, or in the description of a riddle; but hereafter our knowledge will be free from all obscurity and error. It is the light of heaven only, that will remove all clouds and darkness that hide the face of God from us. To sum up the excellences of charity, it is preferred not only to gifts, but to other graces, to faith and hope. Faith fixes on the Divine revelation, and assents thereto, relying on the Divine Redeemer. Hope fastens on future happiness, and waits for that; but in heaven, faith will be swallowed up in actual sight, and hope in enjoyment. There is no room to believe and hope, when we see and enjoy. But there, love will be made perfect. There we shall perfectly love God. And there we shall perfectly love one another. Blessed state! how much surpassing the best below! God is love, 1Jo 4:8,16. Where God is to be seen as he is, and face to face, there charity is in its greatest height; there only will it be perfected. |
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