13:11a When I was a child, I talked like a child,

When I was a child, I talked as a child talks.
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When I was a child, my words were like the words of a child.

13:11b I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.

I thought as a child thinks. I reasoned as a child reasons.
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I thought in a childish way. I understood things the way a child does.

13:11c When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.

When I became an adult, I stopped behaving like a child.
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When I grew big, I rejected the ways of a child.

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