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1 Corinthians 13:11 KJV
1 Corinthians · chapter 13 · verse 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 13:11 · King James Version
1 Corinthians 13:11 in context
9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
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.
12For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
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Key words (Strong's)
- understoodphroneōto have understanding, be wise, to feel, to think, to have an opinion of one's self…G5426 →
- thoughtlogizomaito reckon, count, compute, calculate, count over, to take into account, to make an…G3049 →
- becameginomaito becomeG1096 →
- childnēpiosan infant, little child, a minor, not of age, metaph. childish, untaught, unskilledG3516 →
- spakelaleōto utter a voice or emit a sound, to speak, to use the tongue or the faculty of speech…G2980 →
- awaykatargeōto render idle, unemployed, inactivate, inoperative, to cause a person or thing to have…G2673 →
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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.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 8-13