And I became to the Jews as a Jew, in order that I might gain the Jews: to those under law, as under law, not being myself under law, in order that I might gain those under law:

I became to the weak, as weak, in order that I might gain the weak. To all I have become all things, in order that at all events I might save some.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child; when I became a man, I had done with what belonged to the child.

Thus also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul; the last Adam a quickening spirit.