1 Corinthians 14:20
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.”
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“Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Corinthians 14:20 — 19 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Nehemiah 4:13So I stationed men behind the lowest sections of the wall, at the vulnerable areas. I stationed them by families with their swords, spears, and bows.
- Psalms 119:99I have more insight than all my teachers, for Your testimonies are my meditation.
- Psalms 131:1My heart is not proud, O LORD, my eyes are not haughty. I do not aspire to great things or matters too lofty for me.
- Isaiah 11:3And He will delight in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by what His eyes see, and He will not decide by what His ears hear,
- Matthew 11:25At that time Jesus declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.
- Matthew 18:3“Truly I tell you,” He said, “unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
- Matthew 19:4Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’
- Mark 10:15Truly I tell you, anyone who does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”
- Romans 16:19Everyone has heard about your obedience, so I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise about what is good and innocent about what is evil.
- 1 Corinthians 2:6Among the mature, however, we speak a message of wisdom—but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
- 1 Corinthians 3:1Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.
- 1 Corinthians 13:11When 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.
- Ephesians 4:14Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.
- Philippians 1:9And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight,
- Philippians 3:15All of us who are mature should embrace this point of view. And if you think differently about some issue, God will reveal this to you as well.
- Hebrews 5:12Although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to reteach you the basic principles of God’s word. You need milk, not solid food!
- Hebrews 6:1Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith in God,
- 1 Peter 2:2Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
- 2 Peter 3:18But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
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