1 Corinthians 14:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But if the sense of the voice is not clear to me, I am like a man from a strange country to him who is talking, and he will be the same to me.

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  • Acts 28:2 : 2 And the simple people living there were uncommonly kind to us, for they made a fire for us, and took us in, because it was raining and cold.
  • Acts 28:4 : 4 And when the people saw it hanging on his hand, they said to one another, Without doubt this man has put someone to death, and though he has got safely away from the sea, God will not let him go on living.
  • Rom 1:14 : 14 I have a debt to Greeks and to the nations outside; to the wise and to those who have no learning.
  • 1 Cor 14:21 : 21 In the law it is said, By men of other tongues and by strange lips will my words come to this people; and not even so will they give ear to me, says the Lord.
  • Col 3:11 : 11 Where there is no Greek or Jew, no one with circumcision or without circumcision, no division between nations, no servant or free man: but Christ is all and in all.

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  • 1 Cor 14:1-10
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    84%

    1Go after love; still desiring to have the things which the Spirit gives, but most of all that you may have the prophet's power.

    2For he who makes use of tongues is not talking to men but to God; because no one has the sense of what he is saying; but in the Spirit he is talking of secret things.

    3But the word of the prophet gives men knowledge and comfort and strength.

    4He who makes use of tongues may do good to himself; but he who gives the prophet's word does good to the church.

    5Now though it is my desire for you all to have the power of tongues, it would give me more pleasure to be hearing the prophet's word from you; for this is a greater thing than using tongues, if the sense is not given at the same time, for the good of the church.

    6But, now, my brothers, if I come to you using tongues, what profit will it be to you, if I do not give you a revelation, or knowledge, or the word of the prophet, or teaching?

    7Even things without life, having a voice, such as a music-pipe or other instrument, if they do not give out different sounds, who may be certain what is being played?

    8For if the war-horn gives out an uncertain note, who will get ready for the fight?

    9So if you, in using a strange tongue, say words which have no sense, how will anyone take in what you are saying? for you will be talking to the air.

    10There are, it may be, a number of different voices in the world, and no voice is without sense.

  • 1 Cor 14:12-24
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    12So if you are desiring the things which the Spirit gives, let your minds be turned first to the things which are for the good of the church.

    13For this reason, let the man who has the power of using tongues make request that he may, at the same time, be able to give the sense.

    14For if I make use of tongues in my prayers, my spirit makes the prayer, but not my mind.

    15What then? let my prayer be from the spirit, and equally from the mind; let my song be from the spirit, and equally from mind.

    16For if you give a blessing with the spirit, how will the man who has no knowledge say, So be it, after your prayer, seeing that he has not taken in what you are saying?

    17For your giving of the blessing is certainly well done, but of no profit to the man without knowledge.

    18I give praise to God that I am able to make use of tongues more than you all:

    19But in the church it would be better for me to make use of five words of which the sense was clear, so that others might have profit, than ten thousand words in a strange tongue.

    20My brothers, do not be children in mind: in evil be as little children, but in mind be of full growth.

    21In the law it is said, By men of other tongues and by strange lips will my words come to this people; and not even so will they give ear to me, says the Lord.

    22For this reason tongues are for a sign, not to those who have faith, but to those who have not: but the prophet's word is for those who have faith, and not for the rest who have not.

    23If, then, the church has come together, and all are using tongues, and there come in men without knowledge or faith, will they not say that you are unbalanced?

    24But if all are teaching as prophets, and a man without faith or knowledge comes in, he is tested by all, he is judged by all;

  • 1 Cor 13:1-3
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    1If I make use of the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am like sounding brass, or a loud-tongued bell.

    2And if I have a prophet's power, and have knowledge of all secret things; and if I have all faith, by which mountains may be moved from their place, but have not love, I am nothing.

    3And if I give all my goods to the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it is of no profit to me.

  • 1 Cor 14:26-28
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    26What is it then, my brothers? when you come together everyone has a holy song, or a revelation, or a tongue, or is giving the sense of it. Let everything be done for the common good.

    27If any man makes use of a tongue, let it not be more than two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let someone give the sense:

    28But if there is no one to give the sense, let him keep quiet in the church; and let his words be to himself and to God.

  • 1 Cor 12:1
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    1But about the things of the spirit, my brothers, it is not right for you to be without teaching.

  • 1 Cor 14:38-39
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    38But if any man is without knowledge, let him be so.

    39So then, my brothers, let it be your chief desire to be prophets; but let no one be stopped from using tongues.

  • Rom 1:14
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    14I have a debt to Greeks and to the nations outside; to the wise and to those who have no learning.

  • Isa 28:11
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    11No, but with broken talk, and with a strange tongue, he will give his word to this people:

  • 2 Cor 11:6
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    6But though I am rough in my way of talking, I am not so in knowledge, as we have made clear to all by our acts among you.

  • 1 Cor 12:14-17
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    14For the body is not one part, but a number of parts.

    15If the foot says, Because I am not the hand, I am not a part of the body; it is no less a part of the body.

    16And if the ear says, Because I am not the eye, I am not a part of the body; it is a part of the body all the same.

    17If all the body was an eye, where would be the hearing? if all was hearing, where would be the smelling?

  • Rom 15:21
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    21But as it is said in the holy Writings, They will see, to whom the news of him had not been given, and those to whose ears it had not come will have knowledge.

  • 2 Cor 11:16-17
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    16I say again, Let me not seem foolish to anyone; but if I do, put up with me as such, so that I may take a little glory to myself.

    17What I am now saying is not by the order of the Lord, but as a foolish person, taking credit to myself, as it seems.

  • 1 Cor 2:14
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    14For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit.

  • 1 Cor 1:17
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    17For Christ sent me, not to give baptism, but to be a preacher of the good news: not with wise words, for fear that the cross of Christ might be made of no value.

  • 1 Cor 12:30
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    30Are all able to take away disease? have all the power of tongues? are all able to give their sense?

  • 1 Cor 15:11
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    11If then it is I who am the preacher, or they, this is our word, and to this you have given your faith.

  • 1 Cor 12:10
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    10And to another the power of working wonders; and to another the prophet's word; and to another the power of testing spirits; to another different sorts of tongues; and to another the power of making clear the sense of the tongues:

  • 1 Cor 8:2
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    2If anyone seems to himself to have knowledge, so far he has not the right sort of knowledge about anything;

  • 1 Cor 12:19
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    19And if they were all one part, where would the body be?

  • 1 Cor 3:4
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    4For when one says, I am of Paul; and another says, I am of Apollos; are you not talking like natural men?