1 Corinthians 13:11

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became an adult, I put away childish things.

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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.

In Context

10But when the perfect comes, that which is incomplete will pass away.

12For now we see indirectly in a mirror, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I have been fully known.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 3:1And I, brothers, could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as to fleshly people, as to little children in Christ.

Galatians 4:1I am saying that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is owner of the entire estate.

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 13:9-13

Charity Commended. ( a. d. 57.) 8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. 11 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. 12 For now we see through a glass,… Read the whole commentary →

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