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


In Context

17 You may be giving thanks well enough, but the other man is not edified.

18 I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.

19 But in the church I would rather speak five intelligible 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 adults.

21 In the Law it is written: "Through men of strange tongues and through the lips of foreigners 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.

1st 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 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:20Brethren, be not children in your minds, but in malice be babes; but in your minds be grown 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.