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19 Yet I would rather speak five words in my own understanding while also instructing others in the Church, than speak ten thousand words in a tongue.

20 Brothers, do not be children in understanding, but concerning wickedness be children; in understanding be of a ripe age.

21 In the Law it is written, “‘By other tongues, and by other languages, will I speak to this people. Yet so shall they not hear me’, says the Lord.”

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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