1 Corinthians 14:20 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²⁰ Brothers and sisters, don’t be childish in your thinking, but be infants in regard to evil and adult in your thinking.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Brethren, do not be children [immature] in your thinking; continue to be babes in [matters of] evil, but in your minds be mature [men].

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Brothers and sisters, don’t be like children in the way you think. Well, be babies when it comes to evil, but be adults in your thinking.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Brothers, do not choose to have the minds of children. Instead, be free of malice like infants, but be mature in your minds.

1 Corinthians 14:20 Cross References

Nehemiah 4:13

So I stationed people behind the lowest sections of the wall, at the vulnerable areas. I stationed them by families with their swords, spears, and bows.

Isaiah 11:3

His delight will be in the fear of the  Lord. He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes, he will not execute justice by what he hears with his ears,

Jeremiah 4:22

‘For my people are fools; they do not know me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing what is evil, but they do not know how to do what is good.’

Matthew 11:25

At that time Jesus said,  ‘I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and revealed them to infants.

Matthew 18:3

‘Truly I tell you,’ he said, ‘unless you turn and become like little children,   you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 19:14

Jesus said, ‘Leave the little children alone, and don’t try to keep them from coming to me, because the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.’   ,

Matthew 19:4

‘Haven’t you read,’ he replied, ‘that he who created   them in the beginning made them male and female,   ,

Mark 10:15

Truly I tell you,   whoever does not receive   , the kingdom of God like a little child   will never enter it.’

Luke 18:17

Truly I tell you,   whoever does not receive   the kingdom of God like a little child   will never enter it.’

Romans 1:13

Now I don’t want you to be unaware,  brothers and sisters, that I often planned to come to you (but was prevented until now  ) in order that I might have a fruitful ministry  among you,  just as I have had among the rest of the Gentiles.

Romans 16:19

The report of your obedience has reached everyone.  Therefore I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise about what is good, and yet innocent about what is evil.

1 Corinthians 13:11

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put aside childish things.

1 Corinthians 14:19

yet in the church I would rather speak five words  with my understanding, in order to teach others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

1 Corinthians 2:6

We do, however, speak a wisdom among the mature,  but not a wisdom of this age, or of the rulers  of this age, who are coming to nothing.

Ephesians 4:13

until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of God’s Son,  growing into maturity with a stature  measured by Christ’s fullness.

Philippians 1:9

And I pray this: that your love  will keep on growing  in knowledge and every kind of discernment,

Philippians 3:15

Therefore, let all of us who are mature think this way. And if you think differently about anything, God will reveal  this also to you.

1 Peter 2:2

Like newborn infants, desire the pure milk of the word,  , so that by it you may grow up into your salvation,

2 Peter 3:18

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