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1 Corinthians 13:11

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

  • TYNDALE Tyndale New Testament (1534)

    When I was a chylde I spake as a chylde I vnderstode as a childe I ymagened as a chylde. But assone as I was a man I put awaye childesshnes.

  • GNV Geneva Bible (1599)

    When I was a childe, I spake as a childe, I vnderstoode as a childe, I thought as a childe: but when I became a man, I put away childish thinges.

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Cross-references (4)

Passages linked to 1 Corinthians 13:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • 1 Corinthians 14:20 Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
  • 1 Corinthians 3:1-2 Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now,
  • Galatians 4:1 But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all,
  • Ecclesiastes 11:10 Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

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Explain this verse (21 sources)

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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain 11. When I was a child He illustrates what…

11. When I was a child He illustrates what he had said, by a similitude. For there are many things that are suitable to children, which are afterwards done away on arriving at maturity. For example, education is necessary for childhood; it does not comport with mature age. So long as we live in this world, we require, in some sense, education. We are far from having attained, as yet, the perfection of wisdom. That perfection, therefore, which will be in a manner a maturity of spiritual age, will put an end to education and its accompaniments. In his Epistle to the Ephesians, (Ephesians 4:14,) he exhorts us to be no longer children; but he has there another consideration in view, of which we shall speak when we come to that passage.

John Calvin's Commentaries (1540-1563) — public domain. Text from the Calvin Translation Society English edition (1840s-50s) via the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (ccel.org). Calvin's coverage is partial (roughly two-thirds of the Bible); uncommented books and verses are honest gaps, never fabricated. The 19th-century editor's footnotes and remarks are omitted so the notes are faithfully Calvin's own voice.

Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain He setteth forth that that he said, by an…
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 11 When I was a child, I spake as…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The apostle compareth the state of believers in this…
William Burkitt 1703 · Public Domain Here the apostle compares the Christian’s imperfect state of…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain For now we see through a glass,.... In this…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain In our present state we are mere infants in…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 11. When I was a child] This future…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 1Co 13:11-12. When I was a child, &c. —…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain When I was a child - The idea here…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain When I was a child. I, like you, formerly…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain When . . . a child-- (Co1 3:1; Co1…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 11. When—The specialties will all be superseded by eternal…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 11. I thought as a child] Better as margin,…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (11) When I was a child.—The natural childhood and…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain I understood as a child, I thought as a…
The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain When I was a child, I spake,… understood, ……
B. W. Johnson 1891 · Public Domain 11–13. When I was a child. In these verses…
William B. Godbey 1900 · Public Domain 11. “When I was an infant, I thought as…
J. W. McGarvey 1914 · Public Domain When I was a child, I spake as a…
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 For now we see indirectly in a mirror

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