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20 Brothers and sisters, don’t think like children. In evil things be like babies, but in your thinking you should be like full-grown adults. 21 As the Scriptures[a] say,

“Using those who speak a different language
    and using the lips of foreigners,
I will speak to these people.
    But even then, they will not obey me.” (A)

This is what the Lord says.

22 And from this we see that the use of different languages shows how God deals with those who don’t believe, not with those who believe. And prophecy shows how God works through those who believe, not through unbelievers.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 14:21 Scriptures Literally, “law,” which sometimes means the Old Testament.

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