1 Corinthians 14:20

As if the apostle had said, My brethren, be not like children in understanding, who prefer gay and gaudy things, which make. fine show, as the gift of tongues does, before things more useful.

Thus, do not you choose what best pleaseth you, but what most profits others.. would have you indeed in some respects to be as children, namely in innocency and harmlessness, in freedom from malice, and all kind of wickedness; but in understanding, be and act as men, as persons of mature judgment, who know what is fittest to be spoken, and best to be done.

To be like children in the innocency of our actions, is. virtue; but to be like them in the impotency and weakness of our understanding, is. reproach: In understanding be men.