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1 Corinthians 13:9-11
1599 Geneva Bible
1 Corinthians 13:9-11
1599 Geneva Bible
9 [a]For we know in [b]part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect, is come, then that which is in part shall be abolished.
11 [c]When I was a child, I spake as a child: I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
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- 1 Corinthians 13:9 The reason: Because we are now in the state, that we have need to learn daily, and therefore we have need of those helps, to wit, of the gift of tongues, and knowledge, and also of those that teach them. But to what purpose serve they then, when we have obtained and gotten the full knowledge of God, which serve now but for them which are imperfect, and go by degrees to perfection?
- 1 Corinthians 13:9 We learn imperfectly.
- 1 Corinthians 13:11 He setteth forth that that he said, by an excellent similitude, comparing this life to our infancy or childhood, wherein we stagger and stammer rather than speak, and think and understand but childish things, and therefore have need of such things as may form and frame our tongue and mind: But when we become men, to what purpose should we desire that stammering, those childish toys, and such like things, whereby our childhood is framed by little and little?
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