1 Corinthians 14:20

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Summary

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.

Not

But

Psalm 119:99

Men

1 Corinthians 2:6

Philippians 3:15

General references

Job 34:2

1 Corinthians 10:15

Bible References

Not

So, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.

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.

I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your rules.

He will take delight in obeying the Lord. He will not judge by mere appearances, or make decisions on the basis of hearsay.

Your obedience is known to all and thus I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil.

So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.

And I pray this, that your love may abound even more and more in knowledge and every kind of insight

For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God's utterances. You have gone back to needing milk, not solid food.

Therefore we must progress beyond the elementary instructions about Christ and move on to maturity, not laying this foundation again: repentance from dead works and faith in God,

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the honor both now and on that eternal day.

But

I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your rules.

Men

Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing.

Therefore let those of us who are "perfect" embrace this point of view. If you think otherwise, God will reveal to you the error of your ways.

General references

"Listen to my words, you wise men; hear me, you learned men.

I am speaking to thoughtful people. Consider what I say.