1 Corinthians 14:21-23
1599 Geneva Bible
21 In the [a]Law it is written, (A)By men of other tongues, and by other languages will I speak unto this people: yet so shall they not hear me, saith the Lord.
22 [b]Wherefore strange tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.
23 [c]If therefore, when the whole Church is come together in one, and all speak strange tongues, there come in they that are [d]unlearned, or they which believe not, will they not say, that ye are out of your wits?
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- 1 Corinthians 14:21 By the Law he understandeth all the whole Scripture.
- 1 Corinthians 14:22 The conclusion: Therefore the gift of tongues serveth to punish the unfaithful and unbelievers, unless it be referred to prophecy (that is to say, to the interpretation of Scripture) and that that which is spoken, be by the means understood of the hearers.
- 1 Corinthians 14:23 Another argument: The gift of tongues without prophecy is not only unprofitable to the faithful: but also doth very much hurt as well to them as to the unfaithful which should be won in the public assemblies. For by this means it cometh to pass, that the faithful seem to others to be mad, much less can the unfaithful be instructed thereby.
- 1 Corinthians 14:23 See Acts 4:13.
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