¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways.

²⁰ Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking; rather, be infants in evil, but in thinking be adults.^(A)

On Divisions in the Corinthian Church

3 And so, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people but rather as fleshly, as infants in Christ.^{(A) 2} I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for solid food. Even now you are still not ready,^(B)

4 My point is this: heirs, as long as they are minors, are no better than those who are enslaved, though they are the owners of all the property,

¹⁰ Banish anxiety from your mind, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.^(A)