1 Corinthians 14:20
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20 Brothers, (A)do not be children in your thinking. (B)Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be (C)mature.
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1 Peter 2:2
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2 (A)Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual (B)milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—
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Romans 16:19
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19 For (A)your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, but I want you (B)to be wise as to what is good and innocent as to what is evil.
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1 Corinthians 13:11
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11 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.
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Matthew 18:3
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3 and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you (A)turn and (B)become like children, you (C)will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
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Ephesians 4:14-15
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14 so that we may no longer be children, (A)tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in (B)deceitful schemes. 15 Rather, (C)speaking the truth in love, we are to (D)grow up in every way into him who is (E)the head, into Christ,
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1 Corinthians 2:6
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Wisdom from the Spirit
6 Yet among (A)the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not (B)a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, (C)who are doomed to pass away.
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2 Peter 3:18
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18 But (A)grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. (B)To him be the glory both now and to the day of (C)eternity. Amen.
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Philippians 1:9
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9 And it is my prayer that (A)your love may abound more and more, (B)with knowledge and all discernment,
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Mark 10:15
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15 (A)Truly, I say to you, whoever does not (B)receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”
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Matthew 11:25
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Come to Me, and I Will Give You Rest
25 (A)At that time Jesus declared, “I thank you, Father, (B)Lord of heaven and earth, that (C)you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and (D)revealed them to little children;
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Philippians 3:15
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15 Let those of us who are (A)mature think this way, and if in anything (B)you think otherwise, (C)God will reveal that also to you.
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Isaiah 11:3
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3 And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord.
(A)He shall not judge by (B)what his eyes see,
or decide disputes by (C)what his ears hear,
Psalm 119:99
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99 I have more understanding than all my teachers,
for (A)your testimonies are my meditation.
Hebrews 6:1-3
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6 Therefore (A)let us leave (B)the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance (C)from dead works and of faith toward God, 2 and of (D)instruction about washings,[a] (E)the laying on of hands, (F)the resurrection of the dead, and (G)eternal judgment. 3 And this we will do (H)if God permits.
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- Hebrews 6:2 Or baptisms (that is, cleansing rites)
Hebrews 5:12-13
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12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again (A)the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need (B)milk, not solid food, 13 for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is (C)a child.
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1 Corinthians 3:1-2
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Divisions in the Church
3 But I, brothers,[a] could not address you as (A)spiritual people, but as (B)people of the flesh, as (C)infants in Christ. 2 (D)I fed you with milk, not solid food, for (E)you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready,
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- 1 Corinthians 3:1 Or brothers and sisters
Psalm 131:1-2
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I Have Calmed and Quieted My Soul
A Song of (A)Ascents. Of David.
131 O Lord, my heart is not (B)lifted up;
my eyes are not (C)raised too high;
I do not (D)occupy myself with things
too great and (E)too marvelous for me.
2 But I have calmed and quieted my soul,
like a weaned (F)child with its mother;
like a weaned child is my soul within me.
Matthew 19:4
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4 He answered, (A)“Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female,
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