1 Corinthians 14:20

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;

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  • Rom 16:19 : 19 for your obedience did reach to all; I rejoice, therefore, as regards you, and I wish you to be wise, indeed, as to the good, and harmless as to the evil;
  • 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,
  • Matt 18:3 : 3 and said, `Verily I say to you, if ye may not be turned and become as the children, ye may not enter into the reign of the heavens;
  • Heb 5:12-13 : 12 for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what `are' the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food, 13 for every one who is partaking of milk `is' unskilled in the word of righteousness -- for he is an infant,
  • Ps 119:99 : 99 Above all my teachers I have acted wisely. For Thy testimonies `are' my meditation.
  • 1 Cor 2:6 : 6 And wisdom we speak among the perfect, and wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age -- of those becoming useless,
  • 2 Pet 3:18 : 18 and increase ye in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; to him `is' the glory both now, and to the day of the age! Amen.
  • Phil 3:15 : 15 As many, therefore, as `are' perfect -- let us think this, and if `in' anything ye think otherwise, this also shall God reveal to you,
  • Heb 6:1-3 : 1 Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God, 2 of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on also of hands, of rising again also of the dead, and of judgment age-during, 3 and this we will do, if God may permit,
  • Matt 19:4 : 4 And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made `them', from the beginning a male and a female made them,
  • Mark 10:15 : 15 verily I say to you, whoever may not receive the reign of God, as a child -- he may not enter into it;'
  • 1 Cor 3:1-2 : 1 And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly -- as to babes in Christ; 2 with milk I fed you, and not with meat, for ye were not yet able, but not even yet are ye now able,
  • 1 Cor 13:11 : 11 When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;
  • Eph 4:14-15 : 14 that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray, 15 and, being true in love, we may increase to Him `in' all things, who is the head -- the Christ;
  • Phil 1:9 : 9 and this I pray, that your love yet more and more may abound in full knowledge, and all judgment,
  • Ps 131:1-2 : 1 A Song of the Ascents, by David. Jehovah, my heart hath not been haughty, Nor have mine eyes been high, Nor have I walked in great things, And in things too wonderful for me. 2 Have I not compared, and kept silent my soul, As a weaned one by its mother? As a weaned one by me `is' my soul.
  • Isa 11:3 : 3 To refresh him in the fear of Jehovah, And by the sight of his eyes he judgeth not, Nor by the hearing of his ears decideth.
  • Matt 11:25 : 25 At that time Jesus answering said, `I do confess to Thee, Father, Lord of the heavens and of the earth, that thou didst hide these things from wise and understanding ones, and didst reveal them to babes.

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    10 and when that which is perfect may come, then that which `is' in part shall become useless.

    11 When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;

  • Eph 4:13-15
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    13 till we may all come to the unity of the faith and of the recognition of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a measure of stature of the fulness of the Christ,

    14 that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray,

    15 and, being true in love, we may increase to Him `in' all things, who is the head -- the Christ;

  • 1 Cor 14:19
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    19 but in an assembly I wish to speak five words through my understanding, that others also I may instruct, rather than myriads of words in an `unknown' tongue.

  • Heb 5:12-14
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    12 for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what `are' the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food,

    13 for every one who is partaking of milk `is' unskilled in the word of righteousness -- for he is an infant,

    14 and of perfect men is the strong food, who because of the use are having the senses exercised, unto the discernment both of good and of evil.

  • Eph 5:17
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    17 because of this become not fools, but -- understanding what `is' the will of the Lord,

  • 1 Pet 1:14
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    14 as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

  • 1 Cor 3:1-3
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    1 And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly -- as to babes in Christ;

    2 with milk I fed you, and not with meat, for ye were not yet able, but not even yet are ye now able,

    3 for yet ye are fleshly, for where `there is' among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not fleshly, and in the manner of men do walk?

  • 1 Pet 2:1-2
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    1 Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings,

    2 as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,

  • 1 Cor 14:21
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    21 in the law it hath been written, that, `With other tongues and with other lips I will speak to this people, and not even so will they hear Me, saith the Lord;'

  • 1 Cor 12:1
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    1 And concerning the spiritual things, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant;

  • 2 Cor 6:13
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    13 and `as' a recompense of the same kind, (as to children I say `it',) be ye enlarged -- also ye!

  • 1 Cor 14:38-39
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    38 and if any one is ignorant -- let him be ignorant;

    39 so that, brethren, earnestly desire to prophesy, and to speak with tongues do not forbid;

  • 1 Cor 16:13-14
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    13 Watch ye, stand in the faith; be men, be strong;

    14 let all your things be done in love.

  • 1 Cor 2:13-14
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    13 which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, with spiritual things spiritual things comparing,

    14 and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know `them', because spiritually they are discerned;

  • 1 Cor 14:12
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    12 so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound;

  • Rom 14:16
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    16 Let not, then, your good be evil spoken of,

  • Phil 3:15
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    15 As many, therefore, as `are' perfect -- let us think this, and if `in' anything ye think otherwise, this also shall God reveal to you,

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6 And these things, brethren, I did transfer to myself and to Apollos because of you, that in us ye may learn not to think above that which hath been written, that ye may not be puffed up one for one against the other,

  • 1 Cor 10:15
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    15 as to wise men I speak -- judge ye what I say:

  • 2 Cor 11:6
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    6 and even if unlearned in word -- yet not in knowledge, but in every thing we were made manifest in all things to you.

  • 1 Cor 14:1-2
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    1 Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy,

    2 for he who is speaking in an `unknown' tongue -- to men he doth not speak, but to God, for no one doth hearken, and in spirit he doth speak secrets;

  • Eph 4:20
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    20 and ye did not so learn the Christ,

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

  • 1 Cor 2:5-6
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    5 that your faith may not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

    6 And wisdom we speak among the perfect, and wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age -- of those becoming useless,

  • Eph 5:7
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    7 become not, then, partakers with them,

  • Rom 16:19
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    19 for your obedience did reach to all; I rejoice, therefore, as regards you, and I wish you to be wise, indeed, as to the good, and harmless as to the evil;

  • 1 John 3:18
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    18 My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

  • 1 Cor 14:9-10
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    9 so also ye, if through the tongue, speech easily understood ye may not give -- how shall that which is spoken be known? for ye shall be speaking to air.

    10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is unmeaning,

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    17 This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,

  • 2 Tim 2:7
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    7 be considering what things I say, for the Lord give to thee understanding in all things.

  • 1 Thess 5:4-5
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    4 and ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day may catch you as a thief;

    5 all ye are sons of light, and sons of day; we are not of night, nor of darkness,

  • 1 Cor 3:18
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    18 Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age -- let him become a fool, that he may become wise,

  • Jas 1:16
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    16 Be not led astray, my brethren beloved;

  • 1 Cor 1:10
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    10 And I call upon you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that the same thing ye may all say, and there may not be divisions among you, and ye may be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment,

  • Phil 2:15
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    15 that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,