1 Corinthians 14:20

MY brethren, be not children in your minds, but in evils be you babes, and in your minds be perfect.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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 would rather speak five words with my mind, that others also may learn, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

21In the law it is written, In a strange language and in another tongue Will I speak with this people; Yet so will they not hear me, saith the Lord.

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Cross References

Matthew 18:3and said, Amen I say to you, unless you be converted and become as children, you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.

Mark 10:15Amen I say to you, That whoever shall not receive the kingdom of Aloha as a child, shall not enter into it.

1 Corinthians 2:6But we speak wisdom among the perfect: not the wisdom of this world, nor the authorities of this world, which are abolished;

1 Corinthians 13:11When I was a child, as a child I spake, and as a child I thought, and as a child I reasoned; but when I had become a man I abolished these things of childhood.

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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