1 Corinthians 13:11

When I was a child, I talked as a child, and I reasoned as a child, and I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I laid aside the things of childhood.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 completeness shall come, then that which is partial will vanish away.

12And now we see, as by a mirror, in similitude; but then face to face: now I know partially; but then shall I know, just as I am known.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 3:1And I, my Brethren, could not talk with you, as with spiritual persons, but as with the carnal, as with babes in Messiah.

Galatians 4:1But I say, that the heir, so long as he is a child, differeth not from a servant, although he is lord of all;

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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