Verse 11
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as s child; now, that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.
Can this be anything if not a suggestion that the Corinthians should stop being children and grow up? In case any of them might have missed the point, he added a bit later, "Brethren, be not children in mind" (1 Corinthians 14:20). Furthermore, the admonition was given in the same breath with Paul's statement that five intelligible words were worth more than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue!
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