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Parallel 1COR 13:11

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BI 1Cor 13:11 ©

Text critical issues=small word differences Clarity of original=clearImportance=normal(All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV)When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, and reasoned like a child, but then when I became an adult, I set childish things aside.

OET-LVWhen I_was an_infant, I_was_speaking like an_infant, I_was_thinking like an_infant, I_was_counting like an_infant, when I_have_become a_man, I_have_nullified the things of_the infant.

SR-GNTὍτε ἤμην νήπιος, ἐλάλουν ὡς νήπιος, ἐφρόνουν ὡς νήπιος, ἐλογιζόμην ὡς νήπιος· ὅτε γέγονα ἀνήρ, κατήργηκα τὰ τοῦ νηπίου.
   (Hote aʸmaʸn naʸpios, elaloun hōs naʸpios, efronoun hōs naʸpios, elogizomaʸn hōs naʸpios; hote gegona anaʸr, kataʸrgaʸka ta tou naʸpiou.)

Key: khaki:verbs, light-green:nominative/subject, orange:accusative/object, pink:genitive/possessor.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

ULTWhen 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 put away the things of the child.

USTHere is an analogy: when we were young, we talked as children talk. We thought as children think. We made decisions as children make decisions. But when we grew up, we stopped acting as children do.

BSB  § When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.

BLBWhen I was a child, I was speaking like a child, I was thinking like a child, I was reasoning like a child; when I became a man, I did away with the things of the child.


AICNTWhen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child; when I became a man, I put away childish things.

OEBWhen I was a child, I talked as a child, I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child; now that I am a man, I have done with childish ways.

WEBBEWhen 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.

WMBB (Same as above)

NETWhen I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became an adult, I set aside childish ways.

LSVWhen I was a child, I was speaking as a child, I was thinking as a child, I was reasoning as a child, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the child;

FBVWhen I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I grew up I left behind such child-like ways.

TCNTWhen I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, and I reasoned like a child. But when I became a man, I set aside childish ways.

T4TWhen we were children, we talked like children talk, we thought like children think, we reasoned like children reason. But when we grew up, we got rid of our childish ways [MET]. Similarly, you need to get rid of your childish thinking about the abilities that the Spirit has given you.

LEBWhen 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 set aside the things of a child.

BBEWhen I was a child, I made use of a child's language, I had a child's feelings and a child's thoughts: now that I am a man, I have put away the things of a child.

MoffNo Moff 1COR book available

WymthWhen I was a child, I talked like a child, felt like a child, reasoned like a child: when I became a man, I put from me childish ways.

ASVWhen I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.

DRAWhen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But, when I became a man, I put away the things of a child.

YLTWhen I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;

DrbyWhen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child; when I became a man, I had done with what belonged to the child.

RVWhen I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.

WbstrWhen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

KJB-1769When 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.

KJB-1611[fn]When I was a childe, I spake as a childe, I vnderstood as a childe, I thought as a childe: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
   (Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above apart from footnotes)


13:11 Or, reasoned.

BshpsWhen I was a chylde, I spake as a childe, I vnderstode as a childe, I imagined as a chylde: But assoone as I was a man, I put away chyldishnesse.
   (When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I imagined as a chylde: But as soon as I was a man, I put away chyldishnesse.)

GnvaWhen I was a childe, I spake as a childe, I vnderstoode as a childe, I thought as a childe: but when I became a man, I put away childish thinges.
   (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. )

CvdlWhan I was a childe, I spake as a childe, I vnderstode as a childe, I ymagined as a childe. But as soone as I was a man, I put awaye childishnes.
   (When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I imagineed as a child. But as soon as I was a man, I put away childishnes.)

TNTWhen I was a chylde I spake as a chylde I vnderstode as a childe I ymagened as a chylde. But assone as I was a man I put awaye childesshnes.
   (When I was a chylde I spake as a chylde I understood as a child I imagened as a child. But as soon as I was a man I put away child’sshnes. )

WyclWhanne Y was a litil child, Y spak as a litil child, Y vndurstood as a litil child, Y thouyte as a litil child; but whanne Y was maad a man, Y auoidide tho thingis that weren of a litil child.
   (When I was a little child, I spake as a little child, I understood as a little child, I thought as a little child; but when I was made a man, I auoidide those things that were of a little child.)

LuthDa ich ein Kind war, da redete ich wie ein Kind und war klug wie ein Kind und hatte kindische Anschläge; da ich aber ein Mann ward, tat ich ab, was kindisch war.
   (So I a Kind was, there talked I like a Kind and what/which klug like a Kind and had kindische Anschläge; there I but a man ward, did I ab, what/which kindisch was.)

ClVgCum essem parvulus, loquebar ut parvulus, sapiebam ut parvulus, cogitabam ut parvulus. Quando autem factus sum vir, evacuavi quæ erant parvuli.
   (Since essem parvulus, loquebar as parvulus, sapiebam as parvulus, cogitabam as parvulus. When however factus I_am vir, evacuavi which they_were parvuli. )

UGNTὅτε ἤμην νήπιος, ἐλάλουν ὡς νήπιος, ἐφρόνουν ὡς νήπιος, ἐλογιζόμην ὡς νήπιος; ὅτε γέγονα ἀνήρ, κατήργηκα τὰ τοῦ νηπίου.
   (hote aʸmaʸn naʸpios, elaloun hōs naʸpios, efronoun hōs naʸpios, elogizomaʸn hōs naʸpios; hote gegona anaʸr, kataʸrgaʸka ta tou naʸpiou.)

SBL-GNTὅτε ἤμην νήπιος, ⸂ἐλάλουν ὡς νήπιος, ἐφρόνουν ὡς νήπιος, ἐλογιζόμην ὡς νήπιος⸃· ⸀ὅτε γέγονα ἀνήρ, κατήργηκα τὰ τοῦ νηπίου.
   (hote aʸmaʸn naʸpios, ⸂elaloun hōs naʸpios, efronoun hōs naʸpios, elogizomaʸn hōs naʸpios⸃; ⸀hote gegona anaʸr, kataʸrgaʸka ta tou naʸpiou.)

TC-GNTὍτε ἤμην νήπιος, [fn]ὡς νήπιος ἐλάλουν, ὡς νήπιος ἐφρόνουν, ὡς νήπιος ἐλογιζόμην· ὅτε [fn]δὲ γέγονα ἀνήρ, κατήργηκα τὰ τοῦ νηπίου.
   (Hote aʸmaʸn naʸpios, hōs naʸpios elaloun, hōs naʸpios efronoun, hōs naʸpios elogizomaʸn; hote de gegona anaʸr, kataʸrgaʸka ta tou naʸpiou. )


13:11 ως νηπιος ελαλουν … ελογιζομην ¦ ελαλουν … ελογιζομην ως νηπιος CT

13:11 δε ¦ — CT

Key for above GNTs: yellow:punctuation differs, red:words differ (from our SR-GNT base).


TSNTyndale Study Notes:

13:1-13 Paul interrupts his discussion of spiritual gifts (resumed in ch 14) to emphasize that love is more important than any spiritual gift (cp. 8:1-3). The most important thing for Christians is to become deeply and consistently loving people.

TTNTyndale Theme Notes:

Loving Others

Jesus spoke of loving one’s neighbor as the second most important of the Old Testament commandments (Mark 12:31). In fact, love summarizes the entire Old Testament law (22:40; cp. Matt 7:12; 9:9-13; 12:1-13; see Rom 13:8-10). Jesus criticized the Pharisees for their failure to show love (Matt 9:13; 12:7; 23:4, 13-14, 23). Love is the mark of a true follower of Jesus (John 13:34-35) and of an authentic experience of God (1 Jn 2:9-11; 3:11-18; 4:7-21).

For Paul, love is more important than any of the spiritual gifts and the most important virtue. Love “binds us all together in perfect harmony” (Col 3:14). Without love, ministry has limited value (1 Cor 13:1-3). Paul summed up the whole of Christian ethics as “faith expressing itself in love” (Gal 5:6). Love is the natural outworking of Christian faith, the primary fruit of the Spirit (Gal 5:22), and the most important motivation for ministry. As believers grow in Christ, they will seek more and more to love others as he did.

Passages for Further Study

Lev 19:18; Hos 6:6; Matt 7:12; 9:9-13; 12:1-13; 22:37-40; 23:2-4, 13, 23; John 13:34-35; Rom 13:8-10; 1 Cor 13:1-13; Gal 5:6, 22-23; Col 3:12-14; 1 Jn 2:7-11; 3:11-18; 4:7-21


UTNuW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / 123person

ὅτε ἤμην νήπιος, ἐλάλουν ὡς νήπιος, ἐφρόνουν ὡς νήπιος, ἐλογιζόμην ὡς νήπιος; ὅτε γέγονα ἀνήρ, κατήργηκα τὰ τοῦ νηπίου

when ˱I˲_was /an/_infant ˱I˲_/was/_speaking like /an/_infant ˱I˲_/was/_thinking like /an/_infant ˱I˲_/was/_reckoning like /an/_infant when ˱I˲_/have/_become /a/_man ˱I˲_/have/_nullified the_‹things› ˱of˲_the infant

Connecting Statement:

Here Paul uses the first person I to describe himself as an example, but he implies that most people experience what he describes here. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express I with a form that provides a general example. Alternate translation: [When people were children, they spoke like children, they thought like children, they reasoned like children. When they became adults, they put away childish things]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism

ἐλάλουν ὡς νήπιος, ἐφρόνουν ὡς νήπιος, ἐλογιζόμην ὡς νήπιος

˱I˲_/was/_speaking like /an/_infant ˱I˲_/was/_thinking like /an/_infant ˱I˲_/was/_reckoning like /an/_infant

Connecting Statement:

Here Paul repeats like a child and the same structure in three consecutive clauses. This was worded powerfully in his culture. If it would be helpful in your language, and if it would not be worded powerfully in your culture, you could indicate why Paul repeats words and structure by eliminate some or all of the repetition and by making the statements powerful in another way. Alternate translation: [I did everything like a child] “I spoke, thought, and reasoned like a child”

γέγονα ἀνήρ

˱I˲_/have/_become /a/_man

Connecting Statement:

Alternate translation: [I became an adult]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

κατήργηκα τὰ τοῦ νηπίου

˱I˲_/have/_nullified the_‹things› ˱of˲_the infant

Connecting Statement:

Here Paul speaks as if he took the things of the child and put them away in a box or a closet. He means that he stopped doing the things of the child, such as “speaking,” “thinking,” or “reasoning” like a child. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express this figure of speech with a comparable metaphor or express the idea plainly. Alternate translation: [I got rid of childish things] or [I stopped doing childish things]

BI 1Cor 13:11 ©