1Cor 13:11, 14:20, Eph 4:14, 1Pe 2:2 | ISV | STEP | When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, and reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up my childish ways.

1 Corinthians 13:11

11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, and reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up my childish ways.

20 Brothers, stop being ^{▼▼Or do not be} children in your thinking. In evil be infants, but in thinking be adults.Ps 131:2; Matt 11:25; 18:3; 19:14; Rom 16:19; 1Cor 3:1; Eph 4:14; Heb 5:12-13; 1Pet 2:2

14 Then we will no longer be little children, tossed like waves and blown about by every wind of doctrine, by people's trickery, or by clever strategies that would lead us astray.Isa 28:9; Matt 11:7; Rom 16:18; 1Cor 14:20; 2Cor 2:17; Heb 13:9

2 Like newborn babies, thirst for the pure milk of the word so that by it you may grow in your salvation.Matt 18:3; Mark 10:15; Rom 6:4; 1Cor 3:2; 14:20; Heb 5:12-13; 1Pet 1:23