Maturity 1 Corinthians 14:20 ESV / 59 helpful votes Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature. Ephesians 4:14-15 ESV / 37 helpful votes So that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 1 Corinthians 13:11 ESV / 29 helpful votes When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. Hebrews 5:12-13 ESV / 23 helpful votes For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. Hebrews 6:1-3 ESV / 17 helpful votes Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. And this we will do if God permits. Ephesians 4:13 ESV / 13 helpful votes Until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
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