1 Corinthians 14:20

Lighthouse Bible 2006

Brethren, do not be children in understanding: however in malice you should be children, but in understanding you should be men.

Cross References

Nehemiah 4:13

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

Psalm 119:99

I have more understanding than all my teachers: for your 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 according to the sight of his eyes, neither reprove according to the hearing of his ears:

Jeremiah 4:22

For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are stupid children, and they have no 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 you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hid these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them unto babes.

Matthew 18:3

And said, Truly I say to you, Unless you are converted, and become like little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 19:14

But Jesus said, Let little children come to me, and do not forbid them: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 19:4

And he answered and said to them, Have you not read, that he who made them at the beginning made them male and female,

Mark 10:15

Truly I say to you, Whoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.

Luke 18:17

Truly I say to you, Whoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall by no means enter therein.

Romans 1:13

Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren in Christ, that I often intended to come to you, (but have been prevented thus far,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.

Romans 16:19

For your obedience has become known to everyone. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise in that which is good, and simple in evil.

1 Corinthians 13:11

When I was a child, I spoke 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 would 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

However we speak wisdom among those who are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nothing:

Ephesians 4:13

Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:

Philippians 1:9

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

Philippians 3:15

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded: and if in anything you are otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this to you.

1 Peter 2:2

As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that you may grow thereby:

2 Peter 3:18

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