1 Corinthians 14:7

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

yet 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?

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  • Num 10:2-9 : 2 `Make to thee two trumpets of silver; beaten work thou dost make them, and they have been to thee for the convocation of the company, and for the journeying of the camps; 3 and they have blown with them, and all the company have met together unto thee, unto the opening of the tent of meeting. 4 And if with one they blow, then have the princes, heads of the thousands of Israel, met together unto thee; 5 `And ye have blown -- a shout, and the camps which are encamping eastward have journeyed. 6 `And ye have blown -- a second shout, and the camps which are encamping southward have journeyed; a shout they blow for their journeys. 7 `And in the assembling of the assembly ye blow, and do not shout; 8 and sons of Aaron, the priests, blow with the trumpets; and they have been to you for a statute age-during to your generations. 9 `And when ye go into battle in your land against the adversary who is distressing you, then ye have shouted with the trumpets, and ye have been remembered before Jehovah your God, and ye have been saved from your enemies. 10 `And in the day of your gladness, and in your appointed seasons, and in the beginnings of your months, ye have blown also with the trumpets over your burnt-offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace-offerings, and they have been to you for a memorial before your God; I, Jehovah, `am' your God.'
  • Matt 11:17 : 17 and saying, We piped unto you, and ye did not dance, we lamented to you, and ye did not smite the breast.
  • Luke 7:32 : 32 they are like to children, to those sitting in a market-place, and calling one to another, and saying, We piped to you, and ye did not dance, we mourned to you, and ye did not weep!
  • 1 Cor 13:1 : 1 If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;
  • 1 Cor 14:8 : 8 for if also an uncertain sound a trumpet may give, who shall prepare himself for battle?

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  • 1 Cor 14:8-17
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    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?

    17for thou, indeed, dost give thanks well, but the other is not built up!

  • 1 Cor 14:1-6
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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;

    3and he who is prophesying to men doth speak edification, and exhortation, and comfort;

    4he who is speaking in an `unknown' tongue, himself doth edify, and he who is prophesying, an assembly doth edify;

    5and I wish you all to speak with tongues, and more that ye may prophecy, for greater is he who is prophesying than he who is speaking with tongues, except one may interpret, that the assembly may receive edification.

    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?

  • 1 Cor 14:21-24
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    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;'

    22so that the tongues are for a sign, not to the believing, but to the unbelieving; and the prophesy `is' not for the unbelieving, but for the believing,

    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 13:1
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    1If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;

  • 1 Cor 14:26-28
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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.

  • 1 Cor 14:19
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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.

  • 1 Cor 14:38-40
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    38and if any one is ignorant -- let him be ignorant;

    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 12:16-17
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    16and if the ear may say, `Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body;' it is not, because of this, not of the body?

    17If the whole body `were' an eye, where the hearing? if the whole hearing, where the smelling?

  • Rev 14:2
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    2and I heard a voice out of the heaven, as a voice of many waters, and as a voice of great thunder, and a voice I heard of harpers harping with their harps,

  • Isa 28:11
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    11For by scorned lip, and by another tongue, Doth He speak unto this people.

  • Dan 3:5
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    5at the time that ye hear the voice of the cornet, the flute, the harp, the sackbut, the psaltery, the symphony, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and do obeisance to the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath raised up:

  • 1 Cor 12:30
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    30have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

  • Ps 150:3-4
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    3Praise Him with blowing of trumpet, Praise Him with psaltery and harp.

    4Praise Him with timbrel and dance, Praise Him with stringed instruments and organ.

  • Rom 10:14
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    14How then shall they call upon `him' in whom they did not believe? and how shall they believe `on him' of whom they did not hear? and how shall they hear apart from one preaching?

  • Isa 5:12
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    12And harp, and psaltery, tabret, and pipe, And wine, have been their banquets, And the work of Jehovah they behold not, Yea, the work of His hands they have not seen.

  • Ps 19:3
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    3There is no speech, and there are no words. Their voice hath not been heard.

  • 1 Cor 12:10
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    10and to another in-workings of mighty deeds; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits; and to another `divers' kinds of tongues; and to another interpretation of tongues:

  • Dan 3:10
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    10Thou, O king, hast made a decree that every man who doth hear the voice of the cornet, the flute, the harp, the sackbut, the psaltery, and the symphony, and all kinds of music, doth fall down and do obeisance to the golden image;

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

  • Ps 92:3
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    3On ten strings and on psaltery, On higgaion, with harp.

  • 1 Cor 2:13
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    13which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, with spiritual things spiritual things comparing,

  • Dan 3:15
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    15Now, lo, ye are ready, so that at the time that ye hear the voice of the cornet, the flute, the harp, the sackbut, the psaltery, and the symphony, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and do obeisance to the image that I have made! -- and lo, ye do no obeisance -- in that hour ye are cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; who is that God who doth deliver you out of my hands?'

  • Isa 24:8
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    8Ceased hath the joy of tabrets, Ceased hath the noise of exulting ones, Ceased hath the joy of a harp.

  • Eph 5:19
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    19speaking to yourselves 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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    8The love doth never fail; and whether `there be' prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

  • 1 Cor 12:19
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    19and if all were one member, where the body?

  • Num 10:7
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    7`And in the assembling of the assembly ye blow, and do not shout;