A-Z: Common sayings from the Bible
- Threescore years and ten
- Through a glass darkly
- Thy neighbour's wife
- Till death us do part
- Tithe
- To have and to hold
- Tower of Babel
- Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is grown he will not depart from it
- Treasure in clay pots / earthen vessels
- Turn the other cheek
- Twinkling of an eye
- Valley of the shadow of death
- Vanity of vanities
- Vengeance is mine; I will repay, says the Lord
- Voice crying in the wilderness
- Wages of sin is death
- Washing one's hands of something
- Watch in the night
- Weaker vessel
- Weighed in the balance
- Well done, good and faithful servant
- Wheat and tares
- Whited sepulchre
- Whitewashed wall
- Whole duty of man
- Whore of Babylon
- Widow's cruse of oil
- Widow's mite
- Wisdom of Solomon
- Wolf in sheep's clothing
- Working out one's own salvation
- Writing on the wall
- Your sin will find you out
A-Z: Common sayings from the Bible: Through a glass darkly
Usage
Something not quite understood, a sense of the limits of human understanding.Definition
Paul, in his sermon on love, reminds people that their understanding of God is partial. But if they love, they understand enough of God to want to know more.Bible References
1 Corinthians 13:12- English Standard Version
- King James Version
1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 4Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11When 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. 12For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 4Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 8Charity 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. 9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 10But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. 11When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12For 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. 13And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
The 'Apostle to the Gentiles' (d. c. CE 65). Paul had a major role in setting up the Early Church and is believed to be the author of several letters in the Bible.
The Bible describes God as the unique supreme being, creator and ruler of the universe.
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