1 Corinthians 13:11

WEB

¹¹When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

KJV

¹¹When 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.

BSB

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.

FBV

¹¹When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I grew up I left behind such childlike ways.

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Extra References

1 Corinthians 14:20

²⁰Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

1 Corinthians 3:1-2

¹Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. ²I fed you with milk, not with solid food, for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now,

Galatians 4:1

¹But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all,

Ecclesiastes 11:10

¹⁰Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.