INTERPRETATION

Passages on this topic · 11

• 1 Corinthians 14:9

  So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air.

• 1 Corinthians 14:10

  There are, it may be, so many kinds of sounds in the world, and none of them is without meaning.

• 1 Corinthians 14:11

  If then I don’t know the meaning of the sound, I would be to him who speaks a foreigner, and he who speaks would be a foreigner to me.

• 1 Corinthians 14:12

  So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly.

• 1 Corinthians 14:13

  Therefore let him who speaks in another language pray that he may interpret.

• 1 Corinthians 14:14

  For if I pray in another language, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.

• 1 Corinthians 14:15

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

• 1 Corinthians 14:16

  Otherwise if you bless with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the “Amen” at your giving of thanks, seeing he doesn’t know what you say?

• 1 Corinthians 14:17

  For you most certainly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up.

• 1 Corinthians 14:18

  I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all.

• 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.