1 Corinthians 14:19

WEB

¹⁹However, in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.

KJV

¹⁹Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

BSB

¹⁹But in the church, I would rather speak five coherent words to instruct others than ten thousand words in a tongue.

FBV

¹⁹But in church I would rather speak five understandable words to teach others than ten thousand words in a tongue nobody understands.

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Extra References

1 Corinthians 14:21-22

²¹In the law it is written, “By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. They won’t even listen to me that way, says the Lord.”²²Therefore other languages are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving; but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe.

1 Corinthians 14:4

⁴He who speaks in another language edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the assembly.