11 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.

10 Remove vexation from your heart, and ^uput away pain¹ from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Cast Your Bread upon the Waters

Divisions in the Church

1 But I, brothers,¹ could not address you as ^aspiritual people, but as ^bpeople of the flesh, as ^cinfants in Christ. 2 ^dI fed you with milk, not solid food, for ^eyou were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready,

Divisions in the Church

1 But I, brothers,¹ could not address you as ^aspiritual people, but as ^bpeople of the flesh, as ^cinfants in Christ.

20 Brothers, ^hdo not be children in your thinking. ⁱBe infants in evil, but in your thinking be ^jmature.

Sons and Heirs

1 I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave,¹ though he is the owner of everything,