1 Corinthians 14:20
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
In context
18 I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.
19 But in the church, I would rather speak five coherent words to instruct others than ten thousand words in a tongue.
20 Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
21 It is written in the Law: “By strange tongues and foreign lips I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to Me, says the Lord.”
22 Tongues, then, are a sign, not for believers, but for unbelievers. Prophecy, however, is for believers, not for unbelievers.
1 Corinthians 14:20 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
- KJV King James Version
- Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
- WEB World English Bible
- Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;
- DBY Darby Translation
- Brethren, be not children in [your] minds, but in malice be babes; but in [your] minds be grown [men].
- WBS Webster Bible
- Brethren, be not children in understanding: yet in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.