1 Corinthians 13:11

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became an adult, I set aside childish ways.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 14:20 : 20 Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
  • 1 Cor 3:1-2 : 1 Immaturity and Self-deception So, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. 2 I fed you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready. In fact, you are still not ready,
  • Gal 4:1 : 1 Now I mean that the heir, as long as he is a minor, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything.
  • Eccl 11:10 : 10 Banish emotional stress from your mind. and put away pain from your body; for youth and the prime of life are fleeting.

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    1Now I mean that the heir, as long as he is a minor, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything.

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