1 Corinthians 14:20

The Scriptures 1998

Brothers, do not be children in your thinking, but in evil be babes, and in your thinking be perfect.

Cross References

Nehemiah 4:13

So I set men behind the lower parts of the wall, at the openings – I set the people according to their clans, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

Psalm 119:99

I have more understanding than all my teachers, For Your witnesses are my study.

Isaiah 11:3

and shall make Him breathe in the fear of יהוה. And He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, nor decide by 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 יהושע  responding, said, “I thank You, Father, Master of the heavens and earth, because You have hidden these matters from clever and learned ones and have revealed them to babes.

Matthew 18:3

and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become as little children, you shall by no means enter into the reign of the heavens.

Matthew 19:14

But יהושע  said, “Allow the young children and do not stop them from coming to Me, for of such is the reign of the heavens.”

Matthew 19:4

And He answering, said to them, “Did 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 reign of Elohim as a little child, shall certainly not enter into it.”

Luke 18:17

“Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the reign of Elohim as a little child, shall certainly not enter into it.”

Romans 1:13

And I do not wish you to be unaware, brothers, that I often purposed to come to you, but was hindered until now, in order to have some fruit among you, as also among the other gentiles.

Romans 16:19

Your obedience, indeed, is reported to all. Therefore I rejoice concerning you, but I wish you to be wise indeed as to the good, and simple toward the evil.

1 Corinthians 13:11

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child. But when I became a man, I did away with childish matters.

1 Corinthians 14:19

but in an assembly I wish to speak five words with my understanding that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

1 Corinthians 2:6

Yet we speak wisdom among those who are perfect, and not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age that are being brought to naught.

Ephesians 4:13

until we all come to the unity of the belief and of the knowledge of the Son of Elohim, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the completeness of Messiah,

Philippians 1:9

And this I pray, that your love might extend more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

Philippians 3:15

As many, then, as are perfect, should have this mind. And if you think differently in any respect, Elohim shall also reveal this to you.

1 Peter 2:2

as newborn babes, desire the unadulterated milk of the Word, in order that you grow by it,

2 Peter 3:18

but grow in the favour and knowledge of our Master and Saviour יהושע  Messiah. To Him be the esteem both now and to a day that abides. Amĕ