Verse 20

Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.

Referenced Verses

  • Rom 16:19 : 19 For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I rejoice therefore over you: but I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple unto that which is evil.
  • 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;
  • Matt 18:3 : 3 and said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye turn, and become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven.
  • Heb 5:12-13 : 12 For when by reason of the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need again that some one teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food. 13 For every one that partaketh of milk is without experience of the word of righteousness; for he is a babe.
  • Ps 119:99 : 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers; For thy testimonies are my meditation.
  • 1 Cor 2:6 : 6 We speak wisdom, however, among them that are fullgrown: yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nought:
  • 2 Pet 3:18 : 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him [be] the glory both now and for ever. Amen.
  • Phil 3:15 : 15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded: and if in anything ye are otherwise minded, this also shall God reveal unto you:
  • Heb 6:1-3 : 1 Wherefore leaving the doctrine of the first principles of Christ, let us press on unto perfection; not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, 2 of the teaching of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. 3 And this will we do, if God permit.
  • Matt 19:4 : 4 And he answered and said, Have ye not read, that he who made [them] from the beginning made them male and female,
  • Mark 10:15 : 15 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall in no wise enter therein.
  • 1 Cor 3:1-2 : 1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able [to bear it] : nay, not even now are ye able;
  • 1 Cor 13:11 : 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.
  • Eph 4:14-15 : 14 that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error; 15 but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, [even] Christ;
  • Phil 1:9 : 9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
  • Ps 131:1-2 : 1 [A Song of Ascents; of David]. Jehovah, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty; Neither do I exercise myself in great matters, Or in things too wonderful for me. 2 Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul; Like a weaned child with his mother, Like a weaned child is my soul within me.
  • Isa 11:3 : 3 And his delight shall be in the fear of Jehovah; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither decide after the hearing of his ears;
  • Matt 11:25 : 25 At that season Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou didst hide these things from the wise and understanding, and didst reveal them unto babes: [