1 Corinthians 13:11

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.”

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BSBPD

“When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“When 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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo 1 Corinthians 13:11 — 4 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Ecclesiastes 11:10So banish sorrow from your heart, and cast off pain from your body, for youth and vigor are fleeting.
  2. 1 Corinthians 3:1Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.
  3. 1 Corinthians 14:20Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
  4. Galatians 4:1What I am saying is that as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, although he is the owner of everything.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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