But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.

for we walk by faith, not by sight—

Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.

For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror;

Darkly

Then Samson said to them, “Let me now propound a riddle to you; if you will indeed tell it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen wraps and thirty changes of clothes.

“Son of man, propound a riddle and speak a parable to the house of Israel,

Face

Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses returned to the camp, his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.

With him I speak mouth to mouth,

Even openly, and not in dark sayings,
And he beholds the form of the Lord.
Why then were you not afraid
To speak against My servant, against Moses?”

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

“See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven continually see the face of My Father who is in heaven.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is.

they will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads.

Now

For we know in part and we prophesy in part;

even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.

General references

“Son of man, propound a riddle and speak a parable to the house of Israel,

For we know in part and we prophesy in part;

for we walk by faith, not by sight—