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Dear brothers and sisters, don’t be childish in your understanding of these things. Be innocent as babies when it comes to evil, but be mature in understanding matters of this kind.
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To be perfectly frank, I'm getting exasperated with your infantile thinking. How long before you grow up and use your head - your adult head? It's all right to have a childlike unfamiliarity with evil; a simple no is all that's needed there. But there's far more to saying yes to something. Only mature and well-exercised intelligence can save you from falling into gullibility.
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Brothers, don't be childish in your thinking, but be infants in evil and adult in your thinking.
1 Corinthians 14:20 In-Context
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I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.
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But in the church I would rather speak five intelligible words to instruct others than ten thousand words in a tongue.
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Brothers and sisters, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be adults.
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In the Law it is written: “With other tongues and through the lips of foreigners I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.”
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Tongues, then, are a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers; prophecy, however, is not for unbelievers but for believers.