1 Corinthians 14:20

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Cross References

Nehemiah 4:13

So I stationed the people in order, in places behind the wall, all around it, with their swords, and lances, and bows.

Isaiah 11:3

And he will be filled with the spirit of the fear of the Lord. He will not judge according to the sight of the eyes, nor reprove according to the hearing of the ears.

Jeremiah 4:22

For my foolish people have not known me. They are foolish and mad sons. They are clever in doing evil, but they do not know how to do good.

Matthew 11:25

At that time, Jesus responded and said: "I acknowledge you, Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the prudent, and have revealed them to little ones.

Matthew 18:3

And he said: "Amen I say to you, unless you change and become like little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 19:14

Yet truly, Jesus said to them: "Allow the little children to come to me, and do not choose to prohibit them. For the kingdom of heaven is among such as these."

Matthew 19:4

And he said to them in response, "Have you not read that he who made man from the beginning, made them male and female?" And he said:

Mark 10:15

Amen I say to you, whoever will not accept the kingdom of God like a little child, will not enter into it."

Luke 18:17

Amen, I say to you, whoever will not accept the kingdom of God like a child, will not enter into it."

Romans 1:13

But I want you to know, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you, (though I have been hindered even to the present time) so that I might obtain some fruit among you also, just as also among the other Gentiles.

Romans 16:19

But your obedience has been made known in every place. And so, I rejoice in you. But I want you to be wise in what is good, and simple in what is evil.

1 Corinthians 13:11

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I understood like a child, I thought like a child. But when I became a man, I put aside the things of a child.

1 Corinthians 14:19

But in the Church, I prefer to speak five words from my mind, so that I may instruct others also, rather than ten thousand words in tongues.

1 Corinthians 2:6

Now, we do speak wisdom among the perfect, yet truly, this is not the wisdom of this age, nor that of the leaders of this age, which shall be reduced to nothing.

Ephesians 4:13

until we all meet in the unity of faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, as a perfect man, in the measure of the age of the fullness of Christ.

Philippians 1:9

And this I pray: that your charity may abound more and more, with knowledge and with all understanding,

Philippians 3:15

Therefore, as many of us as are being perfected, let us agree about this. And if in anything you disagree, God will reveal this to you also.

1 Peter 2:2

Like newborn infants, desire the milk of reasonableness without guile, so that by this you may increase unto salvation,

2 Peter 3:18

Yet truly, increase in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory, both now and in the day of eternity. Amen.