1 Corinthians 14:20 Cross References - Goodspeed

²⁰ Brothers, you must not be children mentally. In evil be babies, but mentally be mature.

²⁵ At that same time Jesus said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding all this from the learned and intelligent and revealing it to children.

³ and he said, "I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never get into the Kingdom of Heaven at all.

⁴ But he answered, "Did you never read that the Creator at the beginning made them male and female,

¹⁵ I tell you, whoever does not accept the Kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it at all."

¹⁹ Everyone has heard of your obedience, and I am very happy about you, but I want you to be wise about what is good and guileless about what is bad.

⁶ Yet there is a wisdom that we impart when we are with people who have a mature faith, but it is not what this world calls wisdom, nor what the authorities of this world, doomed as they are to pass away, would call so.

¹ So, for my part, brothers, I could not treat you as spiritual persons; I had to treat you just as creatures of flesh and blood, as babies in Christian living. ² I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. Why, you are not ready for it now,

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 put aside my childish ways.

¹⁴ We must not be babies any longer, blown about and swung around by every wind of doctrine through the trickery of men with their ingenuity in inventing error. ¹⁵ We must lovingly hold to the truth and grow up into perfect union with him who is the head—Christ himself.

⁹ And it is my prayer that your love may grow richer and richer in knowledge and perfect insight,

¹⁵ Let as many of us therefore as are mature have this attitude. If you have any different attitude, God will make this clear to you.

¹² For although from the length of your Christian experience you ought to be teaching others, you actually need someone to teach you over again the very elements of Christian truth, and you have come to need milk instead of solid food. ¹³ For anyone who is limited to milk is unacquainted with Christian teaching, for he is only an infant.

¹ Let us therefore leave elementary Christian teaching alone and advance toward maturity. We must not be always relaying foundations, of repentance for wrong-doing, and of faith in God, ² with the teaching of baptism and the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead and final judgment. ³ And we will advance if God permits it.

² and like new-born babes crave the pure spiritual milk that will make you grow up to salvation,

¹⁸ You must grow in the blessing and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Glory to him now and forever.