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.
Therefore remove vexation from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh, for youth and dawn of life are futility.
And they reasoned among themselves, saying, “Because we brought no bread!”
But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part shall be inactive.
For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know, as I also have been known.
Brothers, do not be children in your thinking, but in evil be babes, and in your thinking be perfect.
And I say, for as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, though he is master of all,
Now Shemu’ĕl did not yet know יהוה, and the word of יהוה was not yet revealed to him.