1 Corinthians 13:8-13

The Way of Love

⁸ Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹ For _n we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰ but _o when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. ¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. ¹² For _p now we see in a mirror dimly, but _q then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as _r I have been fully known.

¹³ So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 8:2
   If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know.
   
2. Cross References
   John 15:15
   No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
   
3. Cross References
   James 1:23
   For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror.
   Numbers 12:8
   With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
   Job 36:26
   Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.
   2 Corinthians 3:18
   And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
   2 Corinthians 5:7
   For we walk by faith, not by sight.
   
4. Cross References
   1 John 3:2
   Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
   Matthew 5:8
   Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
   
5. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 8:3
   But if anyone loves God, he is known by God.