1 Corinthians 14:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

he who is speaking in an `unknown' tongue, himself doth edify, and he who is prophesying, an assembly doth edify;

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  • 1 Cor 14:22 : 22 so that the tongues are for a sign, not to the believing, but to the unbelieving; and the prophesy `is' not for the unbelieving, but for the believing,
  • 1 Cor 14:26 : 26 What then is it, brethren? whenever ye may come together, each of you hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation? let all things be for building up;
  • 1 Cor 14:5 : 5 and I wish you all to speak with tongues, and more that ye may prophecy, for greater is he who is prophesying than he who is speaking with tongues, except one may interpret, that the assembly may receive edification.
  • Mark 16:17 : 17 `And signs shall accompany those believing these things; in my name demons they shall cast out; with new tongues they shall speak;
  • Rom 14:19 : 19 So, then, the things of peace may we pursue, and the things of building up one another;
  • 1 Cor 13:2 : 2 and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;
  • 1 Cor 14:3 : 3 and he who is prophesying to men doth speak edification, and exhortation, and comfort;

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  • 1 Cor 14:1-3
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    1Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy,

    2for he who is speaking in an `unknown' tongue -- to men he doth not speak, but to God, for no one doth hearken, and in spirit he doth speak secrets;

    3and he who is prophesying to men doth speak edification, and exhortation, and comfort;

  • 1 Cor 14:5-32
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    5and I wish you all to speak with tongues, and more that ye may prophecy, for greater is he who is prophesying than he who is speaking with tongues, except one may interpret, that the assembly may receive edification.

    6And now, brethren, if I may come unto you speaking tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophesying, or in teaching?

    7yet the things without life giving sound -- whether pipe or harp -- if a difference in the sounds they may not give, how shall be known that which is piped or that which is harped?

    8for if also an uncertain sound a trumpet may give, who shall prepare himself for battle?

    9so also ye, if through the tongue, speech easily understood ye may not give -- how shall that which is spoken be known? for ye shall be speaking to air.

    10There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is unmeaning,

    11if, then, I do not know the power of the voice, I shall be to him who is speaking a foreigner, and he who is speaking, is to me a foreigner;

    12so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound;

    13wherefore he who is speaking in an `unknown' tongue -- let him pray that he may interpret;

    14for if I pray in an `unknown' tongue, my spirit doth pray, and my understanding is unfruitful.

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

    16since, if thou mayest bless with the spirit, he who is filling the place of the unlearned, how shall he say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, since what thou dost say he hath not known?

    17for thou, indeed, dost give thanks well, but the other is not built up!

    18I give thanks to my God -- more than you all with tongues speaking --

    19but in an assembly I wish to speak five words through my understanding, that others also I may instruct, rather than myriads of words in an `unknown' tongue.

    20Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;

    21in the law it hath been written, that, `With other tongues and with other lips I will speak to this people, and not even so will they hear Me, saith the Lord;'

    22so that the tongues are for a sign, not to the believing, but to the unbelieving; and the prophesy `is' not for the unbelieving, but for the believing,

    23If, therefore, the whole assembly may come together, to the same place, and all may speak with tongues, and there may come in unlearned or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

    24and if all may prophecy, and any one may come in, an unbeliever or unlearned, he is convicted by all, he is discerned by all,

    25and so the secrets of his heart become manifest, and so having fallen upon `his' face, he will bow before God, declaring that God really is among you.

    26What then is it, brethren? whenever ye may come together, each of you hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation? let all things be for building up;

    27if an `unknown' tongue any one do speak, by two, or at the most, by three, and in turn, and let one interpret;

    28and if there may be no interpreter, let him be silent in an assembly, and to himself let him speak, and to God.

    29And prophets -- let two or three speak, and let the others discern,

    30and if to another sitting `anything' may be revealed, let the first be silent;

    31for ye are able, one by one, all to prophesy, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted,

    32and the spiritual gift of prophets to prophets are subject,

  • 1 Cor 14:38-40
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    38and if any one is ignorant -- let him be ignorant;

    39so that, brethren, earnestly desire to prophesy, and to speak with tongues do not forbid;

    40let all things be done decently and in order.

  • Eph 4:12
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    12unto the perfecting of the saints, for a work of ministration, for a building up of the body of the Christ,

  • 1 Cor 12:10
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    10and to another in-workings of mighty deeds; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits; and to another `divers' kinds of tongues; and to another interpretation of tongues:

  • Isa 28:11
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    11For by scorned lip, and by another tongue, Doth He speak unto this people.

  • Col 4:4
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    4that I may manifest it, as it behoveth me to speak;

  • Jude 1:20
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    20And ye, beloved, on your most holy faith building yourselves up, in the Holy Spirit praying,

  • Acts 2:4
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    4and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, according as the Spirit was giving them to declare.

  • 1 Pet 4:11
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    11if any one doth speak -- `as oracles of God;' if any one doth minister -- `as of the ability which God doth supply;' that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the power -- to the ages of the ages. Amen.

  • Rom 14:19
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    19So, then, the things of peace may we pursue, and the things of building up one another;

  • 1 Cor 13:1
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    1If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;

  • Eph 4:16
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    16from whom the whole body, being fitly joined together and united, through the supply of every joint, according to the working in the measure of each single part, the increase of the body doth make for the building up of itself in love.

  • Eph 4:29
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    29Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

  • Eph 5:19
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    19speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,

  • 1 Thess 5:11
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    11wherefore, comfort ye one another, and build ye up, one the one, as also ye do.

  • 1 Cor 13:9
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    9for in part we know, and in part we prophecy;

  • 1 Cor 12:30
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    30have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

  • 1 Cor 2:13
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    13which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, with spiritual things spiritual things comparing,