The heart of the rash will understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly.
Parallel translations
- KJV The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
- BSB The mind of the rash will know and understand, and the stammering tongue will speak clearly and fluently.
- NKJV Also the heart of the rash will understand knowledge, And the tongue of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly.
- NASB The mind of the rash will discern the truth, And the tongue of the stammerers will hurry to speak clearly.
- NLT Even the hotheads will be full of sense and understanding. Those who stammer will speak out plainly.
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Quick answer
The rash will gain understanding and stammerers will speak clearly. It matters because God's kingdom brings wisdom and clear truth where there was confusion.
Overview
The transformation continues: the hasty become discerning and the halting tongue speaks plainly. Mental and verbal renewal accompany the righteous reign. It pictures a people made wise and able to declare truth, fruit of the Spirit's enlightening work in the messianic age.
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- Isa 29:24They also who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will receive instruction.”
- Luke 21:14–15Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand how to answer,
- Matt 16:17Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
- Acts 26:9–11“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
- Song 7:9Your mouth like the best wine, that goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.
- Acts 4:13Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Jesus.
- Exod 4:11Yahweh said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, Yahweh?
- Acts 2:4–12They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.
- Matt 11:25At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.
- Acts 6:7The word of God increased and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly. A great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.
- Neh 8:8–12They read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading.
- Gal 1:23but they only heard: “He who once persecuted us now preaches the faith that he once tried to destroy.”
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