1 Corinthians 14:20
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20 Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking; rather, be infants in evil, but in thinking be adults.(A)
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1 Peter 2:2
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2 Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation(A)—
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Romans 16:19
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19 For your obedience is known to all; therefore, I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise in what is good and guileless in what is evil.(A)
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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 an adult, I put an end to childish ways.
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Matthew 18:3
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3 and said, “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.(A)
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Ephesians 4:14-15
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14 We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine by people’s trickery, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming;(A) 15 but speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,(B)
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1 Corinthians 2:6
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The True Wisdom of God
6 Yet among the mature we do speak wisdom, though it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are being destroyed.(A)
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2 Peter 3:18
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18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.[a]
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- 3.18 Other ancient authorities lack Amen
Philippians 1:9
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9 And this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight(A)
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Mark 10:15
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15 Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it.”(A)
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Philippians 3:15
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15 Let those of us, then, who are mature[a] think this way, and if you think differently about anything, this, too, God will reveal to you.(A)
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- 3.15 Or perfect
Matthew 11:25
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Jesus Thanks His Father
25 At that time Jesus said, “I thank[a] you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants;(A)
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- 11.25 Or praise
Isaiah 11:3
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3 His delight shall be in the fear of the Lord.
He shall not judge by what his eyes see
or decide by what his ears hear,(A)
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