20Brethren, be not children in your minds, but in malice be babes; but in your minds be grown men.


In Context

17 For thou indeed givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.

18 I thank God I speak in a tongue more than all of you:

19 but in the assembly I desire to speak five words with my understanding, that I may instruct others also, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue.

20 Brethren, be not children in your minds, but in malice be babes; but in your minds be grown men.

21 It is written in the law, By people of other tongues, and by strange lips, will I speak to this people; and neither thus will they hear me, saith the Lord.

22 So that tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to unbelievers; but prophecy, not to unbelievers, but to those who believe.

1 Corinthians 14:20 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:20Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

14:20Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be adults.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

14:20Brethren, do not become children in sense: but in malice be children, and in sense be perfect.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

14:20Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

14:20Brethren, be not children in mind: howbeit in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:20Brethren, be not children in understanding: yet in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:20Brothers, don't be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

14:20Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:20Brothers, be not children in understanding: however, in malice be you children, but in understanding be men.