2 Therefore, rid yourselves^(A) of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander^(B) of every kind. ² Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk,^(C) so that by it you may grow up^(D) in your salvation, ³ now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.^(E)

¹⁰ but when completeness comes,^(A) what is in part disappears. 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 the ways of childhood^(B) behind me. ¹² For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror;^(C) then we shall see face to face.^(D) Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.^(E)