1 Corinthians 14:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So 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.

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  • 1 Cor 9:26 : 26 So then I am running, not uncertainly; so I am fighting, not as one who gives blows in the air:

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  • 1 Cor 14:10-24
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    10There are, it may be, a number of different voices in the world, and no voice is without sense.

    11But 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.

    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 14:1-8
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    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?

  • 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 14:38-40
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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.

    40Let all things be done in the right and ordered way.

  • 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:

  • 1 Cor 13:1
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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.

  • Matt 10:19-20
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    19But when you are given up into their hands, do not be troubled about what to say or how to say it: for in that hour what you are to say will be given to you;

    20Because it is not you who say the words, but the Spirit of your Father in you.

  • Ps 19:3
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    3There are no words or language; their voice makes no sound.

  • 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 2:13
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    13And these are the things which we say, not in the language of man's wisdom, but in words given to us by the Spirit, judging the things of the spirit by the help of the Spirit.

  • Mark 13:11
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    11And when you are taken and given up to be judged, do not be troubled about what to say: but whatever is given to you in that hour, say: because it is not you who say it, but the Holy Spirit.

  • Rom 10:14
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    14But how will they give worship to him in whom they have no faith? and how will they have faith in him of whom they have not had news? and how will they have news without a preacher?

  • 1 Cor 14:31
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    31For you may all be prophets in turn so that all may get knowledge and comfort;

  • Ezek 3:6
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    6Not to a number of peoples whose talk is strange and whose language is hard and whose words are not clear to you. Truly, if I sent you to them they would give ear to you.

  • Acts 2:8
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    8And how is it that every one of us is hearing their words in the language which was ours from our birth?

  • 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 14:36
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    36What? was it from you that the word of God went out? or did it only come in to you?

  • 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.

  • 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 12:17
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    17If all the body was an eye, where would be the hearing? if all was hearing, where would be the smelling?

  • Acts 2:12
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    12And they were all surprised and in doubt saying to one another, What is the reason of this?

  • Acts 2:6
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    6And when this sound came to their ears, they all came together, and were greatly surprised because every man was hearing the words of the disciples in his special language.

  • Job 37:20
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    20How may he have knowledge of my desire for talk with him? or did any man ever say, May destruction come on me?

  • Isa 33:19
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    19Never again will you see the cruel people, a people whose tongue has no sense for you; whose language is strange to you.