Sinai1 Corinthians 14:19
World English Bible
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.
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1 Corinthians 14:19 in other translations
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.
1 Corinthians 14:19 in context
- 17For you most certainly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up.
- 18I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all.
- 19However 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.
- 20Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
- 21In the law it is written, “By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. They won’t even hear me that way, says the Lord.”