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1 Corinthians 14:20

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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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1 Corinthians 14:20 in other translations

Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.

1 Corinthians 14:20 · American Standard Version

1 Corinthians 14:20 in context

  1. 18I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all.
  2. 19However in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.
  3. 20Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
  4. 21In the law it is written, “By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. They won’t even hear me that way, says the Lord.”
  5. 22Therefore other languages are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving; but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe.