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19 But in a meeting of the church, it is better if I say five words that others can understand and be helped by than 10,000 words in special sounds.

20 Christian brothers, do not be like children in your thinking. Be full-grown, but be like children in not knowing how to sin. 21 God says in the Holy Writings, “I will speak to My people. I will speak through men from other lands in other languages. Even then My people will not listen to Me.” (A)

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19 But in the church I would rather speak five intelligible words to instruct others than ten thousand words in a tongue.(A)

20 Brothers and sisters, stop thinking like children.(B) In regard to evil be infants,(C) but in your thinking be adults. 21 In the Law(D) it is written:

“With other tongues
    and through the lips of foreigners
I will speak to this people,
    but even then they will not listen to me,(E)
says the Lord.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 14:21 Isaiah 28:11,12