18 [a]I thank my God, I speak languages more than ye all.

19 Yet had I rather in the Church to speak [b]five words with mine understanding, that I might also instruct others, than ten thousand words in a strange tongue.

20 [c]Brethren, be not (A)children in understanding, but as concerning maliciousness be children, but in understanding be of a ripe age.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 14:18 He propoundeth himself for an example, both that they may be ashamed of their foolish ambition, and also that he may eschew all suspicion of envy.
  2. 1 Corinthians 14:19 A very few words.
  3. 1 Corinthians 14:20 Now he reproveth them freely for their childish folly, which see not how this gift of tongues which was given to the profit of the Church, is turned by their ambition into an instrument of cursing, seeing that this same also is contained amongst the punishments wherewith God punished the stubbornness of his people, that he dispersed them amongst strangers whose language they understood not.

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