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1 Corinthians 13:11
11When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
1 Corinthians 13:11 in other versions
- King James Version (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.
- New International Version (NIV)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 the ways of childhood behind me.
- New King James Version (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.
- New Living Translation (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.
Context of 1 Corinthians 13:11
9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Read all of 1 Corinthians 131 Corinthians 13:11 word by word
ὅτε ἤμην νήπιος, ἐλάλουν ὡς νήπιος, ἐφρόνουν ὡς νήπιος, ἐλογιζόμην ὡς νήπιος· ὅτε γέγονα ἀνήρ, κατήργηκα τὰ τοῦ νηπίου.Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
- Whenὅτεhote ho te hē te tō te · whenG3753
- I wasεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
- a childνήπιοςnēpios · childG3516
- I spakeλαλέωlaleō · to speakG2980
- asὡςhōs · as/whenG5613
- I understoodφρονέωphroneō · to reasonG5426
- I thoughtλογίζομαιlogizomai · to countG3049
- butδέde · thenG1161
- I becameγίνομαιginomai · to beG1096
- a manἀνήρanēr · manG435
- I put awayκαταργέωkatargeō · to abateG2673
Cross-references for 1 Corinthians 13:11
- 1 Corinthians 3:1But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.
- 1 Corinthians 14:20Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
- Ecclesiastes 11:10Remove vexation from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
- Galatians 4:1I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything,
Commentaries on 1 Corinthians 13:11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11When I was a child - This future state of blessedness is as far beyond the utmost perfection that can be attained in this world, as our adult state of Christianity is above our state of natural infancy, in which we understand only as children understand; speak only a few broken articulate words, and reason only as children reason; having few ideas, little knowledge but what may be called mere instinct, and that much less perfect than the instinct of the…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11When I was a child - The idea here is, that the knowledge which we now have, compared with that which we shall have in heaven, is like that which is possessed in infancy compared with that we have in manhood; and that as, when we advance in years, we lay aside, as unworthy of our attention, the views, feelings, and plans which we had in boyhood, and which we then esteemed to be of so great importance, so, when we reach heaven, we shall lay aside the…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-13Verses 8-13 Charity is much to be preferred to the gifts on which the Corinthians prided themselves. From its longer continuance. It is a grace, lasting as eternity. The present state is a state of childhood, the future that of manhood. Such is the difference between earth and heaven. What narrow views, what confused notions of things, have children when compared with grown men! Thus shall we think of our most valued gifts of this world, when we come to…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8-13Love, unlike spiritual gifts, will endure forever.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. When ... a child--(1Co 3:1; 14:20). I spake--alluding to "tongues." understood--or, "had the sentiments of." Alluding to "prophecy." I thought--Greek "reasoned" or "judged"; alluding to "knowledge." when I became ... I put away--rather, "now that I am become a man, I have done away with the things of the child."Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Corinthians 13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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