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1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers, do not choose to have the minds of children. Instead, be free of malice like infants, but be mature in your minds.

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In The King James Version

Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.

In Context

19But in the Church, I prefer to speak five words from my mind, so that I may instruct others also, rather than ten thousand words in tongues.

21It is written in the law: “I will speak to this people with other tongues and other lips, and even so, they will not heed me, says the Lord.”

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Cross References

Isaiah 11:3And he will be filled with the spirit of the fear of the Lord. He will not judge according to the sight of the eyes, nor reprove according to the hearing of the ears.

Matthew 18:3And he said: “Amen I say to you, unless you change and become like little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Mark 10:15Amen I say to you, whoever will not accept the kingdom of God like a little child, will not enter into it.”

1 Corinthians 2:6Now, we do speak wisdom among the perfect, yet truly, this is not the wisdom of this age, nor that of the leaders of this age, which shall be reduced to nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:11When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I understood like a child, I thought like a child. But when I became a man, I put aside the things of a child.

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 14:16-21

On Spiritual Gifts. ( a. d. 57.) 15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also. 16 Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest? 17 For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified. 18 I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all: 19 Yet in… Read the whole commentary →

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