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Pairing the most literal English translation available with an illuminating in-text exposition of each verse in the Bible, this outstanding resource will helps strengthen your grasp on God s Word. By comparing the precise NASB with the magnified sentence structure of the Amplified Bible, readers are better able to appreciate the meaning of the scriptures as understood by their audience in the original languages.
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NASB
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. 13 But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.
AMPLIFED BIBLE
12 For now we are looking in a mirror that gives only a dim (blurred) reflection [of realitys in a riddle or enigma], but then [when perfection comes] we shall see in reality and face to face! Now I know in part (imperfectly), but then I shall know and understand fully and clearly, even in the same manner as I have been fully and clearly known and understood [by God].
13 And so faith, hope, love abide [faith conviction and belief respecting man s relation to God and divine things; hope joyful and confident expectation of eternal salvation; love true affection for God and man, growing out of God s love for and in us], these three; but the greatest of these is love.