New Testament · SCRIPTURE
1 Corinthians 14:20
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Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
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Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
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Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
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ASVAmerican Standard Version
Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.
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Brothers, do not be children in the minds. But in evil be little children; and in thinking be mature.
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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB
1 Corinthians 14
18 I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.
19 But in the church, I would rather speak five coherent words to instruct others than ten thousand words in a tongue.
20 Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
21 It is written in the Law: “By strange tongues and foreign lips I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to Me, says the Lord.”
22 Tongues, then, are a sign, not for believers, but for unbelievers. Prophecy, however, is for believers, not for unbelievers.
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