1 Corinthians 13:11

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 14:20 : 20 Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.
  • 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;
  • Gal 4:1 : 1 But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a bondservant though he is lord of all;
  • Eccl 11:10 : 10 Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

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