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1 Corinthians 13:11 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" 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. "
1 Corinthians 13:11
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part;
10 but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.
11 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.
12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.
13 But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
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1 Corinthians 13:1
"If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal."
1 Corinthians 13:2
"If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing."
1 Corinthians 13:3
"If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing."
1 Corinthians 13:4
"Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,"
1 Corinthians 13:5
"doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;"
1 Corinthians 13:6
"doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;"
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