1 Corinthians 14:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

So 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.

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  • 1 Cor 9:26 : 26 Therefore I run, not with uncertainty; thus I fight, not as one who beats the air.

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  • 1 Cor 14:10-24
    15 verses
    84%

    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.

    18I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than you all;

    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.

    20Brethren, do not be children in understanding; however, in malice be infants, but in understanding be mature.

    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 14:1-8
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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?

    7Even 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?

    8For if the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who will prepare for battle?

  • 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 14:38-40
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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.

  • 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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    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.

  • Matt 10:19-20
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    19But when they deliver you up, do not worry about how or what you shall speak: for it shall be given to you in that same hour what you shall speak.

    20For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

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

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

  • 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.

  • Mark 13:11
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    11But when they lead you and deliver you up, do not think beforehand what you shall speak, nor premeditate: but whatever shall be given you in that hour, speak that: for it is not you that speak, but the Holy Spirit.

  • 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 you may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be encouraged.

  • Ezek 3:6
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    6Not to many people of a strange language and hard speech, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.

  • Acts 2:8
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    8How is it that we hear each in our own language in which we were born?

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

  • 1 Cor 14:36
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    36What? Did the word of God originate from you? Or was it only to you that it came?

  • Rom 15:21
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    21But as it is written, Those who have not been told of him shall see, and those who 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 different 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 would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?

  • Acts 2:12
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    12They were all amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, 'What does this mean?'

  • Acts 2:6
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    6When this sound occurred, the multitude came together and were bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.

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

  • Isa 33:19
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    19You will not see a fierce people, a people of a speech too deep to understand, of a stammering tongue that you cannot comprehend.