¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

²⁰ Brothers, don't be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

¹ Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

² I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,

¹ But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all;

¹⁰ Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, And put away evil from your flesh; For youth and the dawn of life are vanity.