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19 nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind, in order to instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

20 Brothers and sisters,[a] do not be children in your thinking; rather, be infants in evil, but in thinking be adults. 21 In the law it is written,

‘By people of strange tongues
    and by the lips of foreigners
I will speak to this people;
    yet even then they will not listen to me,’

says the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 14:20 Gk brothers

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