1 Corinthians 13:11

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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 gave up childish ways.

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Remove vexation from your mind, and put away pain from your body; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

And they discussed it among themselves, saying, “We brought no bread.”

but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away.

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood.

Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; be babes in evil, but in thinking be mature.

I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no better than a slave, though he is the owner of all the estate;

Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, and the word of the Lord had not yet been revealed to him.