1 Corinthians 14:20

Tree of Life Version

Brothers and sisters, stop being children in your thinking—rather, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

Cross References

1 Peter 2:2

As newborn babes, long for pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow toward salvation—

Romans 16:19

Your obedience has become known to all, so I rejoice over you—but I want you to be wise about what is good and innocent about what is evil.

1 Corinthians 13:11

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 put away childish things.

Matthew 18:3

and said, “Amen, I tell you, unless you turn and become like children, you shall never enter the kingdom of heaven.

1 Corinthians 2:6

We do speak wisdom, however, among those who are mature—but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

2 Peter 3:18

Instead, keep growing in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Yeshua the Messiah. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity! Amen.

Philippians 1:9

Now this I pray, that your love might overflow still more and more in knowledge and depth of discernment,

Mark 10:15

Amen, I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it!”

Philippians 3:15

Therefore let all who are mature have this attitude; and if you have a different attitude in anything, this also God will reveal to you.

Matthew 11:25

At that time Yeshua said in response, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and discerning and revealed them to infants.

Isaiah 11:3

His delight will be in the fear of Adonai. He will not judge by what His eyes see, nor decide by what His ears hear.

Psalm 119:99

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

Matthew 19:4

“Haven’t you read?” He answered. “He who created them from the beginning ‘made them male and female’

Jeremiah 4:22

“For My people are foolish. They do not know Me. They are senseless children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they do not know.”

Matthew 19:14

But Yeshua said, “Let the little children come to Me and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

Luke 18:17

Amen, I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”

Romans 1:13

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that many times I planned to come to you (though I was prevented until now)—so I might have some fruit among you also, just as I have among the rest of the nations.

1 Corinthians 14:19

However, in Messiah’s community I would rather speak five words with my mind, so I may also instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

Ephesians 4:13

This will continue until we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of Ben-Elohim—to mature adulthood, to the measure of the stature of Messiah’s fullness.

Nehemiah 4:13

Then I said to the nobles, the rulers and the rest of the people, “The work is extensive and spread out, and we are widely separated from one another on the wall.