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


In Context

17 For you most certainly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up.

18 I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all.

19 However in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.

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

21 In the law it is written, |By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. Not even thus will they hear me, says the Lord.|

22 Therefore other languages are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving; but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, 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 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 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.