Brothers and sisters, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be adults — Paul reframes the Corinthians' glossolalia-enthusiasm as immaturity. Childish thinking pursues private spiritual thrills. Adult thinking asks: does this build the body? The call to grow up morally while remaining innocent toward evil invokes both moral seriousness and simplicity.

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