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  • 1 Corinthians 13:11
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 11 When I was a child, I used to speak as a child, to think as a child, to reason as a child; but now that I have become a man, I have done away with the traits of a child.

  • 1 Corinthians 13:11
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
    • 11 ὅτε When ἤμην I was νήπιος, babe, ἐλάλουν I was speaking ὡς as νήπιος, babe, ἐφρόνουν I was minding ὡς as νήπιος, babe, ἐλογιζόμην I was reckoning ὡς as νήπιος· babe; ὅτε when γέγονα I have become ἀνήρ, male (adult), κατήργηκα I have made ineffective τὰ the (things) τοῦ of the νηπίου. babe.

  • 1 Corinthians 13:11
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 11 When I was a babe, I used to speak as a babe, to think as a babe, to reason as a babe; but now that I have become a man,+ I have done away with the [traits] of a babe.

  • 1 Corinthians 13:11
    The Bible in Living English
    • 11 When I was a child I used a child’s language, took a child’s views, made a child’s calculations; since I have become a man I have superseded the child’s ways.

  • 1 Corinthians 13:11
    American Standard Version
    • 11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.

  • 1 Corinthians 13:11
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 11 When I was a child I used to speak as a child, To prefer as a child, To reason as a child: Now I have become a man I have laid aside the things of the child!

  • 1 Corinthians 13:11
    King James Version
    • 11 When 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.

  • 1 Corinthians
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2025
    • 13:11 g 10/11 5; w07 9/1 22; w92 7/15 31; w92 8/1 9-11

  • 1 Corinthians
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 13:11 w85 5/1 8-10; g77 6/8 19; g72 11/8 7; w65 196; w63 343; w52 44; el 178; w49 363; w30 262

  • 1 Corinthians
    Research Guide for Jehovah’s Witnesses—2019 Edition
    • 13:11

      Awake!,

      10/2011, p. 5

      The Watchtower,

      9/1/2007, p. 22

      8/1/1992, pp. 9-11

      7/15/1992, p. 31

  • 1 Corinthians Study Notes—Chapter 13
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 13:11

      a child . . . a man: Paul uses the growth of a child to illustrate the progress of the Christian congregation. A child requires much assistance, but an adult does not. Similarly, at the time of Paul’s writing, the new Christian congregation benefited from the assistance of miraculous gifts, such as the gifts of prophecy, tongues, and knowledge. For a time, these gifts were needed to show undeniably that God’s favor had shifted from the Jewish nation to the Christian congregation. (Heb 2:3, 4) But Paul shows that the congregation would eventually grow to adulthood, or reach maturity, and would no longer need those miraculous gifts.

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