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1 Corinthians 13:11

1 Corinthians 13:11 is verse 11 of 1 Corinthians chapter 13, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.

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King James Version

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

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.

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1 Corinthians 13:9–13 · Berean Standard Bible

9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

10 but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.

11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.

12 Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.

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Greek words

ὅτεWhen ἤμηνI was νήπιος,a child,ἐλάλουνI was speaking ὡςlike νήπιος,a child,ἐφρόνουνI was thinking ὡςlike νήπιος,a child,ἐλογιζόμηνI was reasoning ὡςlike νήπιος·a child;ὅτεwhen γέγοναI became ἀνήρ,a man,κατήργηκαI have done away with τὰthe [things]τοῦof the νηπίου.child.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

1 Corinthians 3:1
Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.

1 Corinthians 3:2
I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready,

1 Corinthians 14:20
Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.

Ecclesiastes 11:10
So banish sorrow from your heart, and cast off pain from your body, for youth and vigor are fleeting.

Galatians 4:1
What I am saying is that as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, although he is the owner of everything.

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