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21 In the law it is written,

‘By people of strange tongues
    and by the lips of foreigners
I will speak to this people;
    yet even then they will not listen to me,’

says the Lord. 22 Tongues, then, are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is not for unbelievers but for believers. 23 If, therefore, the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are out of your mind?

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