1 Corinthians 14:20

Appropriate Use Of Prophecy And Tongues

¹⁹ Yet in the congregation I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue. ²⁰ Brethren, be not children in understanding: in wickedness be ye as infants, but in understanding be ye grown men. ²¹ It is written in the law, In foreign tongues and with foreign lips will I speak to this people; and neither so will they hear me, saith the Lord.

Little Child

Little Children

Romans 16:19

For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I rejoice therefore on your behalf; but I would have you wise with regard to that which is good, and simple with regard to that which is evil.

Matthew 18:3

And said, Verily I say to you, except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Hebrews 5:12-13

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again, which are the first principles of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat.

1 Peter 2:2

and all evil-speakings, As new born babes desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

1 Corinthians 2:6

Yet we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: but not the wisdom of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, that come to nought: But we speak the hidden wisdom of God in a mystery,

Matthew 11:25

At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to babes.

Matthew 19:4

And he answering said to them, Have ye not read, that he who made them, made them male and female from the beginning?

Mark 10:15

Verily I say to you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall in no wise enter therein.

1 Corinthians 3:1-2

And I, brethren, could not speak to you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ.

1 Corinthians 13:11

When I was a child, I talked as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

Ephesians 4:14-15

That we may be no longer children, fluctuating to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the slight of men, by cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive:

Philippians 1:9

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more, in all knowledge and in all spiritual sense,

Philippians 3:15

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded; and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

Hebrews 6:1-3

Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on to perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works,

2 Peter 3:18

But grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity! Amen.