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.
Parallel translations
- KJV 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.
- BSB 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.
- NKJV When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
- NASB When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.
- NLT When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things.
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Cross-references · 4
- 1 Cor 14:20Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
- 1 Cor 3:1–2Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.
- Gal 4:1But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all;
- Eccl 11:10Therefore 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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