1 Corinthians 14:9

Authorized King James Version (1611)

So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.

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  • 1 Cor 9:26 : 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:

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  • 1 Cor 14:10-24
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    10There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them [is] without signification.

    11Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh [shall be] a barbarian unto me.

    12Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual [gifts], seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.

    13Wherefore let him that speaketh in an [unknown] tongue pray that he may interpret.

    14For if I pray in an [unknown] tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.

    15¶ What 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.

    16Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?

    17For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.

    18I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:

    19Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that [by my voice] I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an [unknown] tongue.

    20Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.

    21¶ In the law it is written, With [men of] other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.

    22Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying [serveth] not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.

    23If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in [those that are] unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

    24But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or [one] unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all:

  • 1 Cor 14:1-8
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    1¶ Follow after charity, and desire spiritual [gifts], but rather that ye may prophesy.

    2For he that speaketh in an [unknown] tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth [him]; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.

    3But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men [to] edification, and exhortation, and comfort.

    4He that speaketh in an [unknown] tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.

    5I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater [is] he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.

    6¶ Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?

    7And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?

    8For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?

  • 1 Cor 14:26-28
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    26¶ How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.

    27If any man speak in an [unknown] tongue, [let it be] by two, or at the most [by] three, and [that] by course; and let one interpret.

    28But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.

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

    39Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.

    40Let all things be done decently and in order.

  • Isa 28:11
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    11For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

  • 1 Cor 13:1
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    1¶ Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

  • Matt 10:19-20
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    19‹But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.›

    20‹For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.›

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

  • 1 Cor 12:1
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    1¶ Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I would not have you ignorant.

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

  • Mark 13:11
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    11‹But when they shall lead› [you], ‹and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.›

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

  • 1 Cor 14:31
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    31For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.

  • Ezek 3:6
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    6Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.

  • Acts 2:8
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    8And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?

  • 1 Cor 12:30
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    30Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

  • 1 Cor 14:36
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    36¶ What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?

  • Rom 15:21
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    21But as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see: and they that have not heard shall understand.

  • 1 Cor 12:10
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    10To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another [divers] kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:

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

  • Acts 2:12
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    12And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?

  • Acts 2:6
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    6Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.

  • Job 37:20
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    20Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.

  • Isa 33:19
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    19Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, [that thou canst] not understand.