1 Corinthians 13:11 BSB

1 Corinthians 13:11

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 set aside childish ways.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.

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.

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Commentary

3 voices

Basil of Caesarea

CONCERNING FAITH (379)

"When I was a child"—that is, fresh from committing to memory the first elements of the divine Word—"I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But now that I have become a man"—that is, and am hastening to attain the measure of the age of the fullness of Christ—"I have put away the things of a child."

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

In our present state we are mere infants in point of knowledge, compared to what we shall be hereafter. I put away childish things - Of my own accord, willingly, without trouble.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

When 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 views, feelings, and plans which we have in this life, and which we now esteem so wise and so valuable.

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Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὅτε	hote	When	G3753 →
ἤμην	ēmēn	I was	G1510 →
νήπιος,	nēpios	a child,	G3516 →
ἐλάλουν	elaloun	I was speaking	G2980 →
ὡς	hōs	like	G5613 →
νήπιος,	nēpios	a child,	G3516 →
ἐφρόνουν	ephronoun	I was thinking	G5426 →
ὡς	hōs	like	G5613 →
νήπιος,	nēpios	a child,	G3516 →
ἐλογιζόμην	elogizomēn	I was reasoning	G3049 →
ὡς	hōs	like	G5613 →
νήπιος·	nēpios	a child;	G3516 →
ὅτε	hote	when	G3753 →
γέγονα	gegona	I became	G1096 →
ἀνήρ,	anēr	a man,	G435 →
κατήργηκα	katērgēka	I have done away with	G2673 →
τὰ	ta	the [things]	G3588 →
τοῦ	tou	of the	G3588 →
νηπίου.	nēpiou	child.	G3516 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Corinthians 14:20
Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
leads to
- 1 Peter 2:2
  Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
- Romans 16:19
  Everyone has heard about your obedience, so I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise about what is good and innocent about what is evil.
- Matthew 18:3
  “Truly I tell you,” He said, “unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
- 1 Corinthians 2:6
  Among the mature, however, we speak a message of wisdom—but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
- 2 Peter 3:18
  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.
Through
Ecclesiastes 11:10
So banish sorrow from your heart, and cast off pain from your body, for youth and vigor are fleeting.
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 7:1
  Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
- 2 Timothy 2:22
  Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
- Ecclesiastes 1:2
  “Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”