1 Corinthians 13:11

When I was a child I spoke like a child, felt like a child, thought like a child; now that I am become a man, I have done with childish things.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

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 is come, then the perfect will be done away.

12For now we see as in a mirror, and are baffled, but then face to face; now I know in fragments, but then shall I understand even as I also have been understood.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 3:1As for me, brothers, I could not talk to you as spiritual men, but as to creatures of flesh, mere babes in Christ.

Galatians 4:1What I mean is this. As long as the heir is a child, he differs in no respect from a slave, though he be the owner of the whole inheritance;

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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