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 put the ways of childhood behind me — Paul uses the universal experience of growing up (nepios/tēlikos) to illustrate the transition from the church's infancy (pneumatika gifts) to maturity (love); childhood ways are not evil but are transcended by adulthood.

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