1 Corinthians 14:19
American Standard Version
howbeit in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
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1 Corinthians 14:19 in other translations
However in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.
1 Corinthians 14:19 in context
- 17For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.
- 18I thank God, I speak with tongues more than you all:
- 19howbeit in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
- 20Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.
- 21In the law it is written, By men of strange tongues and by the lips of strangers will I speak unto this people; and not even thus will they hear me, saith the Lord.