1 Corinthians 14:20

Modern English Version

Brothers, do not be children in your thinking; rather be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

Cross References

Nehemiah 4:13

Therefore I set guards at the lowest positions behind the wall, in open places. I also stationed the people by families, with their swords, spears, and bows.

Psalm 119:99

I have more understanding than all my teachers, for Your testimonies are my meditation.

Isaiah 11:3

He shall delight in the fear of the Lord, and he shall not judge by what his eyes see, nor reprove by what his ears hear;

Jeremiah 4:22

“For My people are foolish, they have not known Me. They are foolish 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 said, “I thank You, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to infants.

Matthew 18:3

and said, “Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like little children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 19:14

But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them. For to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”

Matthew 19:4

He answered, “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 does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall not enter it.”

Luke 18:17

Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it.”

Romans 1:13

Now I would not have you unaware, brothers, that I often intended to come to you (but was prevented until now), that I might have a harvest among you also, even as among the other Gentiles.

Romans 16:19

Your obedience has become known to all men. Therefore I am glad on your behalf. Yet I want you to be wise in what is good, and innocent in what is evil.

1 Corinthians 13:11

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, and 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

Yet we speak wisdom among those who are mature, although not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

Ephesians 4:13

until we all come into the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, into a complete 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

Therefore let those of us who are mature be thus minded. And if you think differently in any way, God will reveal even this to you.

1 Peter 2:2

As newborn babies, desire the pure milk of the word, that by it you may grow,

2 Peter 3:18

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