1 Corinthians 14:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

My brothers, do not be children in mind: in evil be as little children, but in mind be of full growth.

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  • Rom 16:19 : 19 For all have knowledge of how you do what you are ordered. For this reason I have joy in you, but it is my desire that you may be wise in what is good, and without knowledge of evil.
  • 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;
  • Matt 18:3 : 3 And said, Truly, I say to you, If you do not have a change of heart and become like little children, you will not go into the kingdom of heaven.
  • Heb 5:12-13 : 12 And though by this time it would be right for you to be teachers, you still have need of someone to give you teaching about the first simple rules of God's revelation; you have become like babies who have need of milk, and not of solid food. 13 For everyone who takes milk is without experience of the word of righteousness: he is a child.
  • Ps 119:99 : 99 I have more knowledge than all my teachers, because I give thought to your unchanging word.
  • 1 Cor 2:6 : 6 But still we have wisdom for those who are complete in knowledge, though not the wisdom of this world, and not of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing:
  • 2 Pet 3:18 : 18 But be increased in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. May he have glory now and for ever. So be it.
  • Phil 3:15 : 15 Then let us all, who have come to full growth, be of this mind: and if in anything you are of a different mind, even this will God make clear to you:
  • Heb 6:1-3 : 1 For this reason let us go on from the first things about Christ to full growth; not building again that on which it is based, that is, the turning of the heart from dead works, and faith in God, 2 The teaching of baptisms, and of the putting on of hands, and of the future life of the dead, and of the judging on the last day. 3 Now we will do this, if God lets us.
  • Matt 19:4 : 4 And he said in answer, Have you not seen in the Writings, that he who made them at the first made them male and female, and said,
  • Mark 10:15 : 15 Truly I say to you, Whoever does not put himself under the kingdom of God like a little child, will not come into it at all.
  • 1 Cor 3:1-2 : 1 And the teaching I gave you, my brothers, was such as I was able to give, not to those who have the Spirit, but to those who are still in the flesh, even to children in Christ. 2 I gave you milk and not meat, because you were, then, unable to take it, and even now you are not able;
  • 1 Cor 13:11 : 11 When I was a child, I made use of a child's language, I had a child's feelings and a child's thoughts: now that I am a man, I have put away the things of a child.
  • Eph 4:14-15 : 14 So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error; 15 But saying true words in love, may come to full growth in him, who is the head, even Christ;
  • Phil 1:9 : 9 And my prayer is that you may be increased more and more in knowledge and experience;
  • Ps 131:1-2 : 1 <A Song of the going up. Of David.> Lord, there is no pride in my heart and my eyes are not lifted up; and I have not taken part in great undertakings, or in things over-hard for me. 2 See, I have made my soul calm and quiet, like a child on its mother's breast; my soul is like a child on its mother's breast.
  • Isa 11:3 : 3 And he will not be guided in his judging by what he sees, or give decisions by the hearing of his ears:
  • Matt 11:25 : 25 At that time Jesus made answer and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children.

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  • 1 Cor 13:10-11
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    10 But when that which is complete is come, then that which is in part will be no longer necessary.

    11 When I was a child, I made use of a child's language, I had a child's feelings and a child's thoughts: now that I am a man, I have put away the things of a child.

  • Eph 4:13-15
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    13 Till we all come to the harmony of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to full growth, to the full measure of Christ:

    14 So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;

    15 But saying true words in love, may come to full growth in him, who is the head, even Christ;

  • 1 Cor 14:19
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    19 But in the church it would be better for me to make use of five words of which the sense was clear, so that others might have profit, than ten thousand words in a strange tongue.

  • Heb 5:12-14
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    12 And though by this time it would be right for you to be teachers, you still have need of someone to give you teaching about the first simple rules of God's revelation; you have become like babies who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

    13 For everyone who takes milk is without experience of the word of righteousness: he is a child.

    14 But solid food is for men of full growth, even for those whose senses are trained by use to see what is good and what is evil.

  • Eph 5:17
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    17 For this reason, then, do not be foolish, but be conscious of the Lord's pleasure.

  • 1 Pet 1:14
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    14 Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge:

  • 1 Cor 3:1-3
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    1 And the teaching I gave you, my brothers, was such as I was able to give, not to those who have the Spirit, but to those who are still in the flesh, even to children in Christ.

    2 I gave you milk and not meat, because you were, then, unable to take it, and even now you are not able;

    3 Because you are still in the flesh: for when there is envy and division among you, are you not still walking after the way of the flesh, even as natural men?

  • 1 Pet 2:1-2
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    1 So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,

    2 Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;

  • 1 Cor 14:21
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    21 In the law it is said, By men of other tongues and by strange lips will my words come to this people; and not even so will they give ear to me, says the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 12:1
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    1 But about the things of the spirit, my brothers, it is not right for you to be without teaching.

  • 2 Cor 6:13
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    13 Now to give me back payment of the same sort (I am talking as to my children), let your hearts be wide open to me.

  • 1 Cor 14:38-39
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    38 But if any man is without knowledge, let him be so.

    39 So then, my brothers, let it be your chief desire to be prophets; but let no one be stopped from using tongues.

  • 1 Cor 16:13-14
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    13 Be on the watch, unmoved in the faith, and be strong like men.

    14 Let all you do be done in love.

  • 1 Cor 2:13-14
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    13 And these are the things which we say, not in the language of man's wisdom, but in words given to us by the Spirit, judging the things of the spirit by the help of the Spirit.

    14 For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit.

  • 1 Cor 14:12
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    12 So if you are desiring the things which the Spirit gives, let your minds be turned first to the things which are for the good of the church.

  • Rom 14:16
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    16 Let it not be possible for men to say evil about your good:

  • Phil 3:15
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    15 Then let us all, who have come to full growth, be of this mind: and if in anything you are of a different mind, even this will God make clear to you:

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6 My brothers, it is because of you that I have taken Apollos and myself as examples of these things, so that in us you might see that it is not wise to go farther than what is in the holy Writings, so that no one of you may be lifted up against his brother.

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    15 What I am saying is for wise men, do you be the judges of it.

  • 2 Cor 11:6
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    6 But though I am rough in my way of talking, I am not so in knowledge, as we have made clear to all by our acts among you.

  • 1 Cor 14:1-2
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    1 Go after love; still desiring to have the things which the Spirit gives, but most of all that you may have the prophet's power.

    2 For he who makes use of tongues is not talking to men but to God; because no one has the sense of what he is saying; but in the Spirit he is talking of secret things.

  • Eph 4:20
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    20 For this was not the teaching of Christ which was given to you;

  • 1 Cor 14:15
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    15 What then? let my prayer be from the spirit, and equally from the mind; let my song be from the spirit, and equally from mind.

  • 1 Cor 2:5-6
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    5 So that your faith might be based not on man's wisdom but on the power of God.

    6 But still we have wisdom for those who are complete in knowledge, though not the wisdom of this world, and not of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing:

  • Eph 5:7
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    7 Have no part with such men;

  • Rom 16:19
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    19 For all have knowledge of how you do what you are ordered. For this reason I have joy in you, but it is my desire that you may be wise in what is good, and without knowledge of evil.

  • 1 John 3:18
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    18 My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.

  • 1 Cor 14:9-10
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    9 So if you, in using a strange tongue, say words which have no sense, how will anyone take in what you are saying? for you will be talking to the air.

    10 There are, it may be, a number of different voices in the world, and no voice is without sense.

  • Eph 4:17
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    17 This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,

  • 2 Tim 2:7
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    7 Give thought to what I say; for the Lord will give you wisdom in all things.

  • 1 Thess 5:4-5
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    4 But you, my brothers, are not in the dark, for that day to overtake you like a thief:

    5 For you are all sons of light and of the day: we are not of the night or of the dark.

  • 1 Cor 3:18
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    18 Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.

  • Jas 1:16
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    16 Do not be turned from the right way, dear brothers.

  • 1 Cor 1:10
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    10 Now I make request to you, my brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you will all say the same thing, and that there may be no divisions among you, so that you may be in complete agreement, in the same mind and in the same opinion.

  • Phil 2:15
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    15 So that you may be holy and gentle, children of God without sin in a twisted and foolish generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,