1 Corinthians 13:11

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.

Revised Version 1895

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 that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.

12For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I have been known.

Read all of 1 Corinthians 13

Cross References

1 Corinthians 3:1And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ.

Galatians 4:1But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a bondservant, though 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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study 1 Corinthians 13:11