1 Corinthians 14:20 KJV
Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
I have often joked about being an over grown kid. I like toys. Etc. And over the years I have known about good number, especially men, who also like to joke about the same.
"The only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys."
In chapter thirteen the Apostle said when he became a man he put away childish things. He of course was speaking in the sense of the spiritual and we must not use this Scripture to insist men grow up. But here in the fourteenth chapter he encourages childishness in this one area; in malice be ye children.
- In hatred
- In anger
- In bitterness
- In jealousy and envy and
- In the desire to get even
- In cynicism
- In skepticism
- In negativism
In all of these it would be far better to be as a simple and innocent child.
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