1 Corinthians 14:9

World English Bible (2000)

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 Cor 9:26 : 26 I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air,

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  • 1 Cor 14:10-24
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    84%

    10There are, it may be, so many kinds of sounds in the world, and none of them is without meaning.

    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.

    12So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly.

    13Therefore let him who speaks in another language pray that he may interpret.

    14For if I pray in another language, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.

    15What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

    16Otherwise if you bless with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the "Amen" at your giving of thanks, seeing he doesn't know what you say?

    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. Not even thus will they hear me, says the Lord."

    22Therefore other languages are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving; but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe.

    23If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won't they say that you are crazy?

    24But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all.

  • 1 Cor 14:1-8
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    1Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

    2For he who speaks in another language speaks not to men, but to God; for no one understands; but in the Spirit he speaks mysteries.

    3But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.

    4He who speaks in another language edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the assembly.

    5Now I desire to have you all speak with other languages, but rather that you would prophesy. For he is greater who prophesies than he who speaks with other languages, unless he interprets, that the assembly may be built up.

    6But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with other languages, what would I profit you, unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching?

    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?

    8For if the trumpet gave an uncertain sound, who would prepare himself for war?

  • 1 Cor 14:26-28
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    26What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.

    27If any man speaks in another language, let it be two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let one interpret.

    28But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in the assembly, and let him speak to himself, and to God.

  • 1 Cor 14:38-40
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    38But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant.

    39Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and don't forbid speaking with other languages.

    40Let all things be done decently and in order.

  • Isa 28:11
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    11But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language;

  • 1 Cor 13:1
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    1If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

  • Matt 10:19-20
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    19But when they deliver you up, don't be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say.

    20For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

  • Ps 19:3
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    3There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

  • 1 Cor 12:1
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    1Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don't want you to be ignorant.

  • 1 Cor 2:13
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    13Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

  • Mark 13:11
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    11When they lead you away and deliver you up, don't be anxious beforehand, or premeditate what you will say, but say whatever will be given you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.

  • Rom 10:14
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    14How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?

  • 1 Cor 14:31
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    31For you all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted.

  • Ezek 3:6
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    6not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can not understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you.

  • Acts 2:8
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    8How do we hear, everyone in our own native language?

  • 1 Cor 12:30
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    30Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with various languages? Do all interpret?

  • 1 Cor 14:36
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    36What? Was it from you that the word of God went out? Or did it come to you alone?

  • Rom 15:21
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    21But, as it is written, "They will see, to whom no news of him came. They who haven't heard will understand."

  • 1 Cor 12:10
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    10and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds of languages; and to another the interpretation of languages.

  • 1 Cor 12:17
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    17If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be?

  • Acts 2:12
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    12They were all amazed, and were perplexed, saying one to another, "What does this mean?"

  • Acts 2:6
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    6When this sound was heard, the multitude came together, and were bewildered, because everyone heard them speaking in his own language.

  • Job 37:20
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    20Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?

  • Isa 33:19
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    19You will no longer see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can't comprehend, with a strange language that you can't understand.