Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
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Gill's Exposition
In the law it is written,.... In Isa 28:11 for the word law is not be confined to the five books of Moses, but includes all the writings of the Old Testament; and this entirely agrees with the sense…
Barnes' Notes
Brethren, be not children in understanding - Be not childish; do not behave like little children. They admire, and are astonished at what is striking, novel, and what may be of no real utility. They…
Adam Clarke
Be not children in understanding - There are three words here to which we must endeavor to affix the proper sense.
1. παιδια signifies children in general, but particularly such as are grown up, so as…
The apostle here sums up the argument hitherto, and,
I. Directs them how they should sing and pray in public (Co1 14:15): What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the…
Cambridge Bible
howbeit in malice be ye children This is subjoined lest the Apostle should be charged with contradicting his Master. There is a sense in which all Christians must be children. What it is the Apostle…
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