11When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. …
Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-13)Here the apostle goes on to commend charity, and show how much it is preferable to the gifts on which the Corinthians were so apt to pride themselves, to the utter neglect, and almost extinction, of charity. This he makes out, I. From its longer continuance and duration: Charity never faileth . It is a permanent and perpetual grace, lasting as eternity; whereas the extraordinary gifts on which the…
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