Not that I have already reached the goal or am already fully mature, but I make every effort to take hold of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his own face in a mirror.

Darkly

“Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can explain it to me during the seven days of the feast and figure it out, I will give you 30 linen garments and 30 changes of clothes.

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

Face

The Lord spoke with Moses face to face, just as a man speaks with his friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his assistant, the young man Joshua son of Nun, would not leave the inside of the tent.

I speak with him directly,
openly, and not in riddles;
he sees the form of the Lord.

So why were you not afraid to speak against My servant Moses?”

The pure in heart are blessed,
for they will see God.

“See that you don’t look down on one of these little ones, because I tell you that in heaven their angels continually view the face of My Father in heaven.

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

Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him because we will see Him 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.

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

General references

“Son of man, pose 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,