Catholic Public Domain Version
"Brothers, do not choose to have the minds of children. Instead, be free of malice like infants, but be mature in your minds. "
— 1 Corinthians 14:20, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.”
“Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men. ”
“Brothers, don't be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.”
“Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.”
“Brethren, do not become children in sense. But in malice be children: and in sense be perfect.”
“My brothers, do not be children in mind: in evil be as little children, but in mind be of full growth.”
“Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.”
In this case, certainly, you give thanks well, but the other person is not edified.
I thank my God that I speak in tongues for all of you.
But in the Church, I prefer to speak five words from my mind, so that I may instruct others also, rather than ten thousand words in tongues.
Brothers, do not choose to have the minds of children. Instead, be free of malice like infants, but be mature in your minds.
It is written in the law: “I will speak to this people with other tongues and other lips, and even so, they will not heed me, says the Lord.”
And so, tongues are a sign, not for believers, but for unbelievers; and prophecies are not for unbelievers, but for believers.
If then, the entire Church were to gather together as one, and if all were to speak in tongues, and then ignorant or unbelieving persons were to enter, would they not say that you were insane?