For even if you were to have ten thousand spiritual instructors--for all that you could not have several fathers. It is I who in Christ Jesus became your father through the Good News.

And in this they became a warning to us, to teach us not to be eager, as they were eager, in pursuit of what is evil.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, felt like a child, reasoned like a child: when I became a man, I put from me childish ways.

In the same way also it is written, "The first man Adam became a living animal"; the last Adam is a life-giving Spirit.