1 Corinthians 14:9
It is the same for you. If you do not speak clearly with your tongue, how will anyone know what is being said? For you will be speaking into the air.
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- 1 Cor 9:26 : 26 So I do not run uncertainly or box like one who hits only air.
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- 1 Cor 14:10-2415 verses84%
10There are probably many kinds of languages in the world, and none is without meaning.
11If then I do not know the meaning of a language, I will be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker a foreigner to me.
12It is the same with you. Since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, seek to abound in order to strengthen the church.
13So then, one who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret.
14If I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unproductive.
15What should I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind. I will sing praises with my spirit, but I will also sing praises with my mind.
16Otherwise, if you are praising God with your spirit, how can someone without the gift say“Amen” to your thanksgiving, since he does not know what you are saying?
17For you are certainly giving thanks well, but the other person is not strengthened.
18I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you,
19but in the church I want to speak five words with my mind to instruct others, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue.
20Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
21It is written in the law:“By people with strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, yet not even in this way will they listen to me,” says the Lord.
22So then, tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers. Prophecy, however, is not for unbelievers but for believers.
23So if the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and unbelievers or uninformed people enter, will they not say that you have lost your minds?
24But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or uninformed person enters, he will be convicted by all, he will be called to account by all.
- 1 Cor 14:1-88 verses81%
1Prophecy and Tongues Pursue love and be eager for the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.
2For the one speaking in a tongue does not speak to people but to God, for no one understands; he is speaking mysteries by the Spirit.
3But the one who prophesies speaks to people for their strengthening, encouragement, and consolation.
4The one who speaks in a tongue builds himself up, but the one who prophesies builds up the church.
5I wish you all spoke in tongues, but even more that you would prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets so that the church may be strengthened.
6Now, brothers and sisters, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I help you unless I speak to you with a revelation or with knowledge or prophecy or teaching?
7It is similar for lifeless things that make a sound, like a flute or harp. Unless they make a distinction in the notes, how can what is played on the flute or harp be understood?
8If, for example, the trumpet makes an unclear sound, who will get ready for battle?
- 1 Cor 14:26-283 verses77%
26Church Order What should you do then, brothers and sisters? When you come together, each one has a song, has a lesson, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all these things be done for the strengthening of the church.
27If someone speaks in a tongue, it should be two, or at the most three, one after the other, and someone must interpret.
28But if there is no interpreter, he should be silent in the church. Let him speak to himself and to God.
- 1 Cor 14:38-403 verses75%
38If someone does not recognize this, he is not recognized.
39So then, brothers and sisters, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid anyone from speaking in tongues.
40And do everything in a decent and orderly manner.
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11For with mocking lips and a foreign tongue he will speak to these people.
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1The Way of Love If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
- Matt 10:19-202 verses71%
19Whenever they hand you over for trial, do not worry about how to speak or what to say, for what you should say will be given to you at that time.
20For it is not you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
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3There is no actual speech or word, nor is its voice literally heard.
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1Spiritual Gifts With regard to spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed.
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13And we speak about these things, not with words taught us by human wisdom, but with those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people.
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11When they arrest you and hand you over for trial, do not worry about what to speak. But say whatever is given you at that time, for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.
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14How are they to call on one they have not believed in? And how are they to believe in one they have not heard of? And how are they to hear without someone preaching to them?
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31For you can all prophesy one after another, so all can learn and be encouraged.
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6not to many peoples of unintelligible speech and difficult language, whose words you cannot understand– surely if I had sent you to them, they would listen to you!
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8And how is it that each one of us hears them in our own native language?
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30Not all have gifts of healing, do they? Not all speak in tongues, do they? Not all interpret, do they?
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36Did the word of God begin with you, or did it come to you alone?
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21but as it is written:“Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.”
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10to another performance of miracles, to another prophecy, and to another discernment of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues.
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17If the whole body were an eye, what part would do the hearing? If the whole were an ear, what part would exercise the sense of smell?
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12All were astounded and greatly confused, saying to one another,“What does this mean?”
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6When this sound occurred, a crowd gathered and was in confusion, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.
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20Should he be informed that I want to speak? If a man speaks, surely he will be swallowed up!
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19You will no longer see a defiant people whose language you do not comprehend, whose derisive speech you do not understand.