1 Corinthians 14:20 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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

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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

Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

Psalm 119:99

I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.

Isaiah 11:3

and shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord. And he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:

Jeremiah 4:22

For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

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 unto babes.

Matthew 18:3

and said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 19:14

But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me; for of such is the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 19:4

And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

Mark 10:15

Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.

Luke 18:17

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

Romans 1:13

Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.

Romans 16:19

For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.

1 Corinthians 13:11

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

1 Corinthians 14:19

yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

1 Corinthians 2:6

Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

Ephesians 4:13

till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

Philippians 1:9

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

Philippians 3:15

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

1 Peter 2:2

as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

2 Peter 3:18

But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.