1 Corinthians 13:9
New International Version
For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

New Living Translation
Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture!

English Standard Version
For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

Berean Standard Bible
For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

Berean Literal Bible
For we know in part and we prophesy in part;

King James Bible
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

New King James Version
For we know in part and we prophesy in part.

New American Standard Bible
For we know in part and prophesy in part;

NASB 1995
For we know in part and we prophesy in part;

NASB 1977
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;

Legacy Standard Bible
For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

Amplified Bible
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part [for our knowledge is fragmentary and incomplete].

Christian Standard Bible
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

American Standard Version
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For we know partially and we prophesy partially,

Contemporary English Version
We don't know everything, and our prophecies are not complete.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

English Revised Version
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Our knowledge is incomplete and our ability to speak what God has revealed is incomplete.

Good News Translation
For our gifts of knowledge and of inspired messages are only partial;

International Standard Version
For what we know is incomplete and what we prophesy is incomplete.

Literal Standard Version
for we know in part, and we prophesy in part;

Majority Standard Bible
For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

New American Bible
For we know partially and we prophesy partially,

NET Bible
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part,

New Revised Standard Version
For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part;

New Heart English Bible
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;

Webster's Bible Translation
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

Weymouth New Testament
For our knowledge is imperfect, and so is our prophesying;

World English Bible
For we know in part and we prophesy in part;

Young's Literal Translation
for in part we know, and in part we prophecy;

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Love
8Love 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. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.…

Cross References
1 Corinthians 8:2
The one who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.

1 Corinthians 13:10
but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.

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.


Treasury of Scripture

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

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.

1 Corinthians 2:9
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

1 Corinthians 8:2
And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.

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1 Corinthians 13
1. All gifts,
3. however excellent, are of no worth without love.
4. The praises thereof,
13. as love is greatest before hope and faith.














(9) We know in part.--Knowledge and preaching are incomplete; therefore, when this dispensation ends, and the complete dispensation is brought in, these imperfect gifts shall cease. Gifts are but the implements of the divine husbandry; graces are the seeds themselves. When the great harvest-time comes, the instruments, however useful, will be cast aside altogether; the seeds will, by the very process of death, be transformed into blossoms and fruits, and in that perfected form remain for ever.

Verse 9. - We know in part. The expression applies directly to religious knowledge, and should be a rebuke to the pretence to infallibility and completeness which is sometimes usurped by religious men.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
For
γὰρ (gar)
Conjunction
Strong's 1063: For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.

we know
γινώσκομεν (ginōskomen)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural
Strong's 1097: A prolonged form of a primary verb; to 'know' in a great variety of applications and with many implications.

in
ἐκ (ek)
Preposition
Strong's 1537: From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out.

part
μέρους (merous)
Noun - Genitive Neuter Singular
Strong's 3313: A part, portion, share. From an obsolete but more primary form of meiromai; a division or share.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

we prophesy
προφητεύομεν (prophēteuomen)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural
Strong's 4395: From prophetes; to foretell events, divine, speak under inspiration, exercise the prophetic office.

in
ἐκ (ek)
Preposition
Strong's 1537: From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out.

part,
μέρους (merous)
Noun - Genitive Neuter Singular
Strong's 3313: A part, portion, share. From an obsolete but more primary form of meiromai; a division or share.


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