growing up

¹¹When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I understood like a child, I thought like a child. But when I became a man, I put aside the things of a child.

¹⁴Yet truly, you should remain in those things which you have learned and which have been entrusted to you. For you know from whom you have learned them. ¹⁵And, from your infancy, you have known the Sacred Scriptures, which are able to instruct you toward salvation, through the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

⁶The proverb is: A youth is close to his way; even when he is old, he will not withdraw from it.

¹¹And the same one granted that some would be Apostles, and some Prophets, yet truly others evangelists, and others pastors and teachers, ¹²for the sake of the perfection of the saints, by the work of the ministry, in the edification of the body of Christ, ¹³until we all meet in the unity of faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, as a perfect man, in the measure of the age of the fullness of Christ. ¹⁴So may we then no longer be little children, disturbed and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the wickedness of men, and by the craftiness which deceives unto error. ¹⁵Instead, acting according to truth in charity, we should increase in everything, in him who is the head, Christ himself. ¹⁶For in him, the whole body is joined closely together, by every underlying joint, through the function allotted to each part, bringing improvement to the body, toward its edification in charity.

¹⁸Yet truly, increase in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory, both now and in the day of eternity. Amen.

⁵²And Jesus advanced in wisdom, and in age, and in grace, with God and men.

¹⁵Instead, acting according to truth in charity, we should increase in everything, in him who is the head, Christ himself. ¹⁶For in him, the whole body is joined closely together, by every underlying joint, through the function allotted to each part, bringing improvement to the body, toward its edification in charity.

²⁶But the youth Samuel advanced, and grew up, and he was pleasing to the Lord, as well as to men.

⁴And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but educate them with the discipline and correction of the Lord.

⁴⁰Now the child grew, and he was strengthened with the fullness of wisdom. And the grace of God was in him.

¹And so, brothers, I was not able to speak to you as if to those who are spiritual, but rather as if to those who are carnal. For you are like infants in Christ. ²I gave you milk to drink, not solid food. For you were not yet able. And indeed, even now, you are not able; for you are still carnal. ³And since there is still envy and contention among you, are you not carnal, and are you not walking according to man? ⁴For if one says, “Certainly, I am of Paul,” while another says, “I am of Apollo,” are you not men? But what is Apollo, and what is Paul?