1 Corinthians 14:20

Appropriate Use Of Prophecy And Tongues

¹⁹ but in an assembly I prefer to speak five words with my understanding, that I may instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue. ²⁰ Brethren, do not be children in mind; yet in evil be babes, but in mind be full-grown. ²¹ In the law it has been written, "With other tongues, and with lips of others, I will speak to this people; and not even thus will they listen to Me," saith the Lord.

Little Child

Little Children

Romans 16:19

For your obedience reached unto all. I rejoice, therefore, over you; but I wish you to be wise as to that which is good, but simple as to 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 even when, on account of the time, ye ought to be teachers, ye again have need that some one teach you the first elements of the oracles of God, and have become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food;

1 Peter 2:2

as new-born babes, long ye for the spiritual, unadulterated milk, that thereby ye may grow unto salvation,

1 Corinthians 2:6

But we speak wisdom among the perfect; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nought;

Matthew 11:25

At that season Jesus, answering, said, "I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of the heaven and of the earth, because Thou didst hide these things from the wise and discerning, and didst reveal them to babes.

Matthew 19:4

And He, answering, said, "Did you not read that He Who made them from the beginning made them 'male and female,'

Mark 10:15

Verily I say to you, whosoever does not receive the Kingdom of God as a little child, will in no wise enter therein."

1 Corinthians 3:1-2

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

1 Corinthians 13:11

When I was a child, I was wont to talk as a child, to think as a child, to reason as a child; since I have become a man, I have done away with the things of the child;

Ephesians 4:14-15

that we may no longer be babes, billow-tossed, and carried about with every wind of teaching, in the sleight of men, in the craftiness suited to the artifice of error;

Philippians 1:9

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in full knowledge and all discernment;

Philippians 3:15

Let us, therefore, as many as are perfect, think this: and, if in anything ye think differently, even this God will reveal to you;

Hebrews 6:1-3

Wherefore, leaving the word of the beginning of Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,

2 Peter 3:18

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever.