KJV King James Version
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.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
1 Corinthians 13:11
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.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
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.
WEB World English Bible
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.
ASV American Standard Version
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;
Surrounding context — 1 Corinthians 13
8 Charity never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall fail; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11 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.
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these [is] charity.
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ὅτεG3753 · hotewhenἤμηνG1510 · eimito beνήπιος,G3516 · nēpioschildἐλάλουνG2980 · laleōto speakὡςG5613 · hōsas/whenνήπιος,G3516 · nēpioschildἐφρόνουνG5426 · phroneōto reasonὡςG5613 · hōsas/whenνήπιος,G3516 · nēpioschildἐλογιζόμηνG3049 · logizomaito countὡςG5613 · hōsas/whenνήπιος·G3516 · nēpioschildὅτεG3753 · hotewhenγέγοναG1096 · ginomaito beἀνήρ,G435 · anērmanκατήργηκαG2673 · katargeōto abateτὰG3588 · hothe/this/whoτοῦG3588 · hothe/this/whoνηπίου.G3516 · nēpioschild
Cross-references
1 Corinthians 14:20Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.1 Corinthians 3:1-2And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, [even] as unto babes in Christ.Galatians 4:1Now I say, [That] the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;Ecclesiastes 11:10Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth [are] vanity.
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