1 Corinthians 14:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

Even things without life, giving sound, whether pipe or harp, unless they give a distinction in the sounds, how will it be known what is piped or harped?

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  • Num 10:2-9 : 2 Make two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece you shall make them: that you may use them for calling the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps. 3 And when they blow them, all the assembly shall gather themselves to you at the entrance of the tabernacle of meeting. 4 And if they blow with one trumpet, then the princes, the leaders of the thousands of Israel, shall gather to you. 5 When you blow an alarm, then the camps that are on the east side shall go forward. 6 When you blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that are on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys. 7 But when the congregation is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm. 8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets; and they shall be for you an ordinance forever throughout your generations. 9 And if you go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresses you, then you shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and you shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies. 10 Also on the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and at the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be a memorial for you before your God: I am the LORD your God.
  • Matt 11:17 : 17 And saying, We have played the flute for you, and you have not danced; we have mourned for you, and you have not lamented.
  • Luke 7:32 : 32 They are like children sitting in the marketplace, and calling to one another, and saying, We have played the flute for you, and you have not danced; we have mourned to you, and you have not wept.
  • 1 Cor 13:1 : 1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
  • 1 Cor 14:8 : 8 For if the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who will prepare for battle?

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  • 1 Cor 14:8-17
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    8For if the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who will prepare for battle?

    9So likewise you, unless you utter by the tongue words easy to understand, how will it be known what is spoken? For you will speak into the air.

    10There are, perhaps, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without significance.

    11Therefore, if I do not know the meaning of the voice, I shall be to him who speaks a foreigner, and he who speaks shall be a foreigner to me.

    12Even so you, since you are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that you may excel to the edification of the church.

    13Therefore, let him who speaks in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.

    14For if I pray in an unknown tongue, 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 occupies the place of the uninformed say Amen at your giving of thanks, seeing he does not understand what you say?

    17For you truly give thanks well, but the other is not edified.

  • 1 Cor 14:1-6
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    1Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

    2For he who speaks in an unknown tongue speaks not to men, but to God; for no man understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries.

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

    4He who speaks in an unknown tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church.

    5I wish that you all spoke with tongues, but rather that you prophesied; for greater is he who prophesies than he who speaks with tongues, unless he interprets, that the church may receive edification.

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

  • 1 Cor 14:21-24
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    21In the law it is written: With men of other tongues and other lips I will speak to this people, and yet for all that they will not hear me, says the Lord.

    22Therefore, tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to those who do not believe; but prophesying is not for unbelievers, but for those who believe.

    23Therefore, if the whole church comes together in one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those who are uninformed or unbelievers, will they not say that you are mad?

    24But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or uninformed person comes in, he is convinced by all, he is judged by all.

  • 1 Cor 13:1
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    1Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

  • 1 Cor 14:26-28
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    26How is it then, brethren? When you come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification.

    27If anyone speaks in an unknown tongue, let it be by two or at the most by three, and each in turn, and let one interpret.

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

  • 1 Cor 14:19
    72%

    19Yet in the church, I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

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

    39Therefore, brethren, desire to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking with tongues.

    40Let all things be done decently and in order.

  • 1 Cor 12:16-17
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    16And if the ear says, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body?

    17If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?

  • Rev 14:2
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    2And I heard a voice from heaven, like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of great thunder; and I heard the sound of harpists playing their harps.

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

  • Dan 3:5
    68%

    5That at the time you hear the sound of the horn, flute, harp, lyre, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of music, you shall fall down and worship the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up.

  • 1 Cor 12:30
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    30Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?

  • Ps 150:3-4
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    3Praise him with the sound of the trumpet; praise him with the lute and harp.

    4Praise him with the tambourine and dance; praise him with stringed instruments and flutes.

  • Rom 10:14
    67%

    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?

  • Isa 5:12
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    12And the harp, and the viol, the tambourine, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they do not regard the work of the LORD, nor consider the operation of his hands.

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

  • 1 Cor 12:10
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    10To another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.

  • Dan 3:10
    67%

    10You, O king, have made a decree that every man who hears the sound of the horn, flute, harp, lyre, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image.

  • 1 Cor 12:1
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    1Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant.

  • Ps 92:3
    66%

    3On an instrument of ten strings, on the psaltery, and on the harp with a solemn sound.

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

  • Dan 3:15
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    15Now if you are ready when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, harp, lyre, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, to fall down and worship the image which I have made, well; but if you do not worship, you shall be cast immediately into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God who shall deliver you out of my hands?

  • Isa 24:8
    66%

    8The mirth of tambourines ceases, the noise of those who rejoice ends, the joy of the harp ceases.

  • Eph 5:19
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    19Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

  • 1 Cor 13:8
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    8Love never fails: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

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

  • Num 10:7
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    7But when the congregation is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm.