1 Corinthians 14:38

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and if any one is ignorant -- let him be ignorant;

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  • Hos 4:17 : 17 Joined to idols `is' Ephraim, let him alone.
  • Matt 7:6 : 6 `Ye may not give that which is `holy' to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, that they may not trample them among their feet, and having turned -- may rend you.
  • Matt 15:14 : 14 let them alone, guides they are -- blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.'
  • 1 Tim 6:3-5 : 3 if any one be teaching otherwise, and do not consent to sound words -- those of our Lord Jesus Christ -- and to the teaching according to piety, 4 he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings, 5 wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such;
  • 2 Tim 4:3-4 : 3 for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers -- itching in the hearing, 4 and indeed, from the truth the hearing they shall turn away, and to the fables they shall be turned aside.
  • Rev 22:11-12 : 11 he who is unrighteous -- let him be unrighteous still, and he who is filthy -- let him be filthy still, and he who is righteous -- let him be declared righteous still, and he who is sanctified -- let him be sanctified still: 12 And lo, I come quickly, and my reward `is' with me, to render to each as his work shall be;

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  • 1 Cor 14:34-37
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    34Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith;

    35and if they wish to learn anything, at home their own husbands let them question, for it is a shame to women to speak in an assembly.

    36From you did the word of God come forth? or to you alone did it come?

    37if any one doth think to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge the things that I write to you -- that of the Lord they are commands;

  • 1 Cor 14:26-30
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    26What then is it, brethren? whenever ye may come together, each of you hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation? let all things be for building up;

    27if an `unknown' tongue any one do speak, by two, or at the most, by three, and in turn, and let one interpret;

    28and if there may be no interpreter, let him be silent in an assembly, and to himself let him speak, and to God.

    29And prophets -- let two or three speak, and let the others discern,

    30and if to another sitting `anything' may be revealed, let the first be silent;

  • 1 Cor 14:39-40
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    39so that, brethren, earnestly desire to prophesy, and to speak with tongues do not forbid;

    40let all things be done decently and in order.

  • 1 Cor 8:2-3
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    2and if any one doth think to know anything, he hath not yet known anything according as it behoveth `him' to know;

    3and if any one doth love God, this one hath been known by Him.

  • 1 Cor 12:1
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    1And concerning the spiritual things, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant;

  • 1 Cor 14:23-24
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    23If, therefore, the whole assembly may come together, to the same place, and all may speak with tongues, and there may come in unlearned or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

    24and if all may prophecy, and any one may come in, an unbeliever or unlearned, he is convicted by all, he is discerned by all,

  • 1 Cor 14:6-16
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    6And now, brethren, if I may come unto you speaking tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophesying, or in teaching?

    7yet the things without life giving sound -- whether pipe or harp -- if a difference in the sounds they may not give, how shall be known that which is piped or that which is harped?

    8for if also an uncertain sound a trumpet may give, who shall prepare himself for battle?

    9so also ye, if through the tongue, speech easily understood ye may not give -- how shall that which is spoken be known? for ye shall be speaking to air.

    10There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is unmeaning,

    11if, then, I do not know the power of the voice, I shall be to him who is speaking a foreigner, and he who is speaking, is to me a foreigner;

    12so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound;

    13wherefore he who is speaking in an `unknown' tongue -- let him pray that he may interpret;

    14for if I pray in an `unknown' tongue, my spirit doth pray, and my understanding is unfruitful.

    15What then is it? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray also with the understanding; I will sing psalms with the spirit, and I will sing psalms also with the understanding;

    16since, if thou mayest bless with the spirit, he who is filling the place of the unlearned, how shall he say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, since what thou dost say he hath not known?

  • 2 Thess 3:14
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    14and if any one do not obey our word through the letter, this one note ye, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed,

  • 1 Cor 14:19-21
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    19but in an assembly I wish to speak five words through my understanding, that others also I may instruct, rather than myriads of words in an `unknown' tongue.

    20Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;

    21in the law it hath been written, that, `With other tongues and with other lips I will speak to this people, and not even so will they hear Me, saith the Lord;'

  • 1 Cor 14:1-2
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    1Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy,

    2for he who is speaking in an `unknown' tongue -- to men he doth not speak, but to God, for no one doth hearken, and in spirit he doth speak secrets;

  • 1 Pet 2:15
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    15because, so is the will of God, doing good, to put to silence the ignorance of the foolish men;

  • 1 Cor 3:18
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    18Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age -- let him become a fool, that he may become wise,

  • 1 Cor 14:4
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    4he who is speaking in an `unknown' tongue, himself doth edify, and he who is prophesying, an assembly doth edify;

  • 1 Cor 2:14-15
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    14and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know `them', because spiritually they are discerned;

    15and he who is spiritual, doth discern indeed all things, and he himself is by no one discerned;

  • 1 Cor 15:34
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    34awake up, as is right, and sin not; for certain have an ignorance of God; for shame to you I say `it'.

  • Phil 3:15
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    15As many, therefore, as `are' perfect -- let us think this, and if `in' anything ye think otherwise, this also shall God reveal to you,

  • 1 Pet 1:14
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    14as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

  • 2 Cor 11:16
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    16Again I say, may no one think me to be a fool; and if otherwise, even as a fool receive me, that I also a little may boast.

  • 1 Tim 6:4
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    4he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings,

  • Matt 15:14
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    14let them alone, guides they are -- blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.'

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6And these things, brethren, I did transfer to myself and to Apollos because of you, that in us ye may learn not to think above that which hath been written, that ye may not be puffed up one for one against the other,

  • 2 Cor 11:6
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    6and even if unlearned in word -- yet not in knowledge, but in every thing we were made manifest in all things to you.

  • Acts 3:17
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    17`And now, brethren, I have known that through ignorance ye did `it', as also your rulers;

  • Jas 1:5
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    5and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;

  • 1 Cor 11:31
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    31for if ourselves we were discerning, we would not be being judged,

  • 1 Tim 1:7
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    7willing to be teachers of law, not understanding either the things they say, nor concerning what they asseverate,