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19 howbeit in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

20 Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be [a]men. 21 In the law it is written, [b]By men of strange tongues and by the lips of strangers will I speak unto this people; and not even thus will they hear me, saith the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 14:20 Greek of full age. Compare 2:6.
  2. 1 Corinthians 14:21 Isa. 28:11f.