1 Corinthians 14:20

Webster's Bible (1833)

Brothers, don't be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

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  • Rom 16:19 : 19 For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.
  • 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 as newborn babes, long for the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby,
  • Matt 18:3 : 3 and said, "Most assuredly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
  • Heb 5:12-13 : 12 For when by reason of the time you ought to be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food. 13 For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.
  • Ps 119:99 : 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers, For your testimonies are my meditation.
  • 1 Cor 2:6 : 6 We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.
  • 2 Pet 3:18 : 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
  • Phil 3:15 : 15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.
  • Heb 6:1-3 : 1 Therefore leaving the doctrine of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection--not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God, 2 of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. 3 This will we do, if God permits.
  • Matt 19:4 : 4 He answered, "Haven't you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,
  • Mark 10:15 : 15 Most assuredly I tell you, whoever will not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."
  • 1 Cor 3:1-2 : 1 Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,
  • 1 Cor 13:11 : 11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.
  • Eph 4:14-15 : 14 that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery 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, Christ;
  • Phil 1:9 : 9 This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
  • Ps 131:1-2 : 1 > Yahweh, my heart isn't haughty, nor my eyes lofty; Nor do I concern myself with great matters, Or 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 His delight shall be in the fear of Yahweh; 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 time, Jesus answered, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

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  • 1 Cor 13:10-11
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    10 but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.

    11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

  • Eph 4:13-15
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    13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;

    14 that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery 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, Christ;

  • 1 Cor 14:19
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    19 However in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.

  • Heb 5:12-14
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    12 For when by reason of the time you ought to be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

    13 For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

    14 But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

  • Eph 5:17
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    17 Therefore don't be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

  • 1 Pet 1:14
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    14 as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

  • 1 Cor 3:1-3
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    1 Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

    2 I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,

    3 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?

  • 1 Pet 2:1-2
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    1 Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

    2 as newborn babes, long for the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby,

  • 1 Cor 14:21
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    21 In the law it is written, "By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. Not even thus will they hear me, says the Lord."

  • 1 Cor 12:1
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    1 Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don't want you to be ignorant.

  • 2 Cor 6:13
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    13 Now in return, I speak as to my children, you also be open wide.

  • 1 Cor 14:38-39
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    38 But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant.

    39 Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and don't forbid speaking with other languages.

  • 1 Cor 16:13-14
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    13 Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

    14 Let all that you do be done in love.

  • 1 Cor 2:13-14
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    13 Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

    14 Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

  • 1 Cor 14:12
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    12 So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly.

  • Rom 14:16
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    16 Then don't let your good be slandered,

  • Phil 3:15
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    15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6 Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

  • 1 Cor 10:15
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    15 I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.

  • 2 Cor 11:6
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    6 But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.

  • 1 Cor 14:1-2
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    1 Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

    2 For he who speaks in another language speaks not to men, but to God; for no one understands; but in the Spirit he speaks mysteries.

  • Eph 4:20
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    20 But you did not learn Christ that way;

  • 1 Cor 14:15
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    15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

  • 1 Cor 2:5-6
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    5 that your faith wouldn't stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

    6 We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.

  • Eph 5:7
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    7 Therefore don't be partakers with them.

  • Rom 16:19
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    19 For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

  • 1 John 3:18
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    18 My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

  • 1 Cor 14:9-10
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    9 So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air.

    10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of sounds in the world, and none of them is without meaning.

  • Eph 4:17
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    17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

  • 2 Tim 2:7
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    7 Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.

  • 1 Thess 5:4-5
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    4 But you, brothers, aren't in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.

    5 You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don't belong to the night, nor to darkness,

  • 1 Cor 3:18
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    18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

  • Jas 1:16
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    16 Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers.

  • 1 Cor 1:10
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    10 Now I beg you, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

  • Phil 2:15
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    15 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

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