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19 In the church, I wouldn’t want to speak 10,000 words in an unfamiliar language. I’d rather speak five words in a language people could understand. Then I would be teaching others.

20 Brothers and sisters, stop thinking like children. Be like babies as far as evil is concerned. But be grown up in your thinking. 21 In the law it is written,

“With unfamiliar languages
    and through the lips of outsiders
I will speak to these people.
    But even then they will not listen to me.” (Isaiah 28:11,12)
That is what the Lord says.

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