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1 Corinthians 14:9

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So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air.

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1 Corinthians 14:9 in other translations

So also ye, unless ye utter by the tongue speech easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye will be speaking into the air.

1 Corinthians 14:9 · American Standard Version

1 Corinthians 14:9 in context

  1. 7Even things without life, giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, if they didn’t give a distinction in the sounds, how would it be known what is piped or harped?
  2. 8For if the trumpet gave an uncertain sound, who would prepare himself for war?
  3. 9So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air.
  4. 10There are, it may be, so many kinds of sounds in the world, and none of them is without meaning.
  5. 11If then I don’t know the meaning of the sound, I would be to him who speaks a foreigner, and he who speaks would be a foreigner to me.