Parallel Verses
Daniel Mace New Testament
Brethren, be not childish in understanding: be as innocent as babes, but use your understanding like men.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
Holman Bible
Brothers, don’t be childish in your thinking, but be infants in regard to evil and adult in your thinking.
International Standard Version
Brothers, stop being childish in your thinking. Be like infants with respect to evil, but think like adults.
A Conservative Version
Brothers, become not children in your thoughts. Instead be childlike in wickedness, but in your thoughts become mature.
American Standard Version
Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.
Amplified
Brothers and sisters, do not be children [immature, childlike] in your thinking; be infants in [matters of] evil [completely innocent and inexperienced], but in your minds be mature [adults].
An Understandable Version
Brothers, do not be children in the way you think, but be babies in wrongdoing; yet be mature in your thinking.
Anderson New Testament
Brethren, be not children in understanding: yet, in malice, be childlike; but, in understanding, be full-grown men.
Bible in Basic English
My brothers, do not be children in mind: in evil be as little children, but in mind be of full growth.
Common New Testament
Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; be infants in evil, but in thinking be mature.
Darby Translation
Brethren, be not children in your minds, but in malice be babes; but in your minds be grown men.
Godbey New Testament
Brethren, be not children in intellect: but be infants in evil, but be perfect in intellect.
Goodspeed New Testament
Brothers, you must not be children mentally. In evil be babies, but mentally be mature.
John Wesley New Testament
Brethren, be not children in understanding: in wickedness be ye as infants, but in understanding be ye grown men.
Julia Smith Translation
Brethren, be not children in reflection: but in wickedness act like children, and in reflection be ye perfected.
King James 2000
Brethren, be not children in understanding: but in malice be children, but in understanding be men.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Brothers, do not become children in [your] understanding, but with respect to wickedness be as a child, and in [your] understanding be mature.
Modern King James verseion
Brothers, do not be children in your minds, but in malice be like infants, and in your minds be mature.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Brethren, be not children in wit. Howbeit, as concerning maliciousness be children: but in wit be perfect.
Moffatt New Testament
Brothers, do not be children in the sphere of intelligence; in evil be mere infants, but be mature in your intelligence.
Montgomery New Testament
Brothers, do not become children in understanding; be babes in malice, but in understanding become mature men.
NET Bible
Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
New Heart English Bible
Brothers, do not be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
Noyes New Testament
Brethren, do not become children in understanding; yet in malice be children, but in understanding be men.
Sawyer New Testament
Brothers, be not children in understanding, but in malice be children, and in understanding be perfect men.
The Emphasized Bible
Brethren! do not become children, in your understandings; but, in baseness, become babes, while, in your understandings, ye become, full-grown.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Brethren, be not children in your minds: though in naughtiness be ye children, but in your minds be men complete.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Brothers, do not show yourselves children in understanding. In wickedness be infants, but in understanding show yourselves men.
Webster
Brethren, be not children in understanding: yet in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
Weymouth New Testament
Brethren, do not prove yourselves to be children in your minds. As regards evil, indeed, be utter babes, but as regards your minds prove yourselves to be men of ripe years.
Williams New Testament
Brothers, stop being children in intelligence, but as to evil keep on being babies; and yet as to intelligence be men of maturity.
World English Bible
Brothers, don't be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
Worrell New Testament
Brethren, do not be children in mind; yet in evil be babes, but in mind be full-grown.
Worsley New Testament
My brethren, be not children in sense: but in malice be infants, and in your judgements shew yourselves to be men.
Youngs Literal Translation
Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;
Themes
spiritual Immaturity » Inability to receive strong doctrine
Maturity, spiritual » By cultivating the understanding
Prophecy and prophets » Prophesying vs. Tongues
Righteous » Compared with » Little children
compared to Saints » Little children
Simplicity » Childlikeness an essential element in the Christian life
Simplicity » Should be exhibited » Concerning malice
Spiritual » Immaturity » Inability to receive strong doctrine
Spiritual » Maturity how secured » By cultivating the understanding
Topics
Interlinear
Ginomai
γίνομαι
Ginomai
be, come to pass, be made, be done, come, become, God forbid , arise, have, be fulfilled, be married to, be preferred, not tr, , vr done
Usage: 531
me
Alla
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Corinthians 14:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Appropriate Use Of Prophecy And Tongues
19 yet in the church I had rather speak five words that convey my meaning to the instruction of others, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue. 20 Brethren, be not childish in understanding: be as innocent as babes, but use your understanding like men. 21 in the law it is written, " with men of other tongues and other lips, will I speak unto this people: and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord."
Cross References
Romans 16:19
your christianity is very well known in the world. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you as expert in that which is good, as unpractis'd in what is evil.
Matthew 18:3
and said, I declare to you, except ye lay aside your ambition, and become as children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of the Messias.
Hebrews 5:12-13
for though by this time you ought to be capable of teaching others, you want to be instructed anew in the first principles of the divine oracles; and are in such a state as to stand in need of milk, rather than of solid nourishment.
1 Peter 2:2
which is without any mixture, and will make you thrive. Since you have tasted how good the Lord is,
1 Corinthians 2:6
However, what we preach is wisdom, to those who are thoroughly instructed: yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who will soon come to nothing.
Matthew 11:25
At the same time Jesus, continuing his discourses, said, "I thank thee, O father, Lord of heaven and earth, for having revealed unto babes what thou hast hid from the wise and prudent.
Matthew 19:4
and he answered them, have ye not read, that when the creator, at the beginning, made male and female,
Mark 10:15
I declare unto you, he that shall pretend to be admitted into the kingdom of God, and has not the temper of a little child, shall not enter therein.
1 Corinthians 3:1-2
However, I could not speak to you, my brethren, as to the spiritual, or as to the dispassionate, but as to novices in christianity.
1 Corinthians 13:11
when I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child: but when I became a man, I laid aside my childish ways.
Ephesians 4:14-15
that we should be no longer children, fluctuating, and carried about with every empty doctrine, by men vers'd in sleight and the crafty arts of deceit:
Philippians 1:9
and the favour I ask of him is this, that your kindness to me may be crown'd with farther improvements in knowledge and all prudence;
Philippians 3:15
Let us therefore, who have been instructed, have this in view: and if you are sollicitous about any thing else, God will reveal even that unto you.
Hebrews 6:1-3
Therefore omitting for the present the principles of the christian doctrine, we shall proceed to something more sublime, without mentioning those fundamental articles of repentance from destructive vices, and of divine faith:
2 Peter 3:18
on the contrary, may you increase in the favour, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ! to him be glory both now and for ever. AMEN.