Vol. 06 · Misquoted ·Book ·331 of 348
"When I was a child, I spake as a child. — Bible"
They never said that.
What people say
"When I was a child, I spake as a child. — Bible"
What was actually said
"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things." Paul the Apostle — 1 Corinthians 13:11 (KJV, 1611)
Why it stuck
The popular abbreviation cuts the second half of the parallelism, which is the actual point — leaving childish things behind. Without it, the verse reads as nostalgia rather than maturity.
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