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1 Corinthians · Chapter 14

1 Corinthians 14:19

However, in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.

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Before · 1 Corinthians 14:17–18

17For you most certainly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up. 18I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all.

19However, in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.

After · 1 Corinthians 14:20–21

20Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature. 21In the law it is written, “By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. They won’t even listen to me that way, says the Lord.”

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