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Adjective nēpios (infant) in the New Testament
(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)
Matthew
| 11: 25 | At that time Jesus said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants (nēpios); |
| 21: 16 | and said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" Jesus said to them, "Yes; have you never read, 'Out of the mouths of infants (nēpios) and nursing babies you have prepared praise for yourself'?" |
Luke
| 10: 21 | At that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants (nēpios); yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. |
1 Thessalonians
| 2: 7 | though we might have made demands as apostles of Christ. But we became an infant (nēpios) among you, like a nurse tenderly caring for her own children. |
1 Corinthians
| 3: 1 | And so, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but rather as people of the flesh, as infants (nēpios) in Christ. |
| 13: 11 | When I was a child (nēpios), I spoke like a child (nēpios), I thought like a child (nēpios), I reasoned like a child (nēpios); when I became an adult, I put an end to child (nēpios)'s ways. |
Galatians
| 4: 1 | My point is this: heirs, as long as they are infants (nēpios), are no better than slaves, though they are the owners of all the property; |
| 4: 3 | So with us; while we were infants (nēpios), we were enslaved to the elemental spirits of the world. |
Romans
| 2: 20 | a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of children (nēpios), having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth, |
Ephesians
| 4: 14 | We must no longer be children (nēpios), tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine, by people's trickery, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming. |
Hebrews
| 5: 13 | for everyone who lives on milk, being still an infant (nēpios), is unskilled in the word of righteousness. |
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